The essential point in this picture is that eternity is always the same and always indivisible; in it there is no being created and no becoming; there is no such thing as being older and younger in eternity; there is no past, present or future. There is no was or will be but only an eternal is. Obviously we cannot have that state in a created world; but none the less the created world is, within its limits, the image of eternity. Here then is the salient fact. The essence of the word aiōnios is that