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Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Fifth

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If time subsist together with heaven [i.e. with the universe], and neither * can the universe exist if time is not, nor time if the universe has no existence; and if time was not, when the universe † was not, neither will time be when the universe does not exist. For if the universe was when time was not, it then follows that time was when time was not.

Fragments of the Lost Writings of Proclus: Arguments in Proof of the Eternity of the World: Argument the Fifth

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