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are infinite and never change. In you “today” never comes to an end: and yet our “today” does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply “today.” The countless days of our lives and of our forefathers’ lives have passed by within your “today.” From it they have received their due measure of duration and their very existence. And so it will be with
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