Passage 7

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In plain words

But surely it is establishing the Lord that has to be done. What is this establishing? It is not, to begin with, coming into being, since He is eternal. Nor do the authors of the and the like bring Him into being. If it is said that establishing is making known, then for One whose is unbounded, an establishing that consists in a to be added by the working of a is of no use at all. But how is it that His is unbounded? For in the of blue, pleasure and the like, where is His to be found? Still less where these do not shine, in sleep, fainting and the like. Or even if the Lord is self-luminous, what has happened to , that the working of a should be of no use to them? With this doubt in view, he says:

In regard to the Great Lord, the doer, the knower, one’s own , established from the start, who could make a denial or an establishing, being one whose is not insentient?