Everything Has Its Time

VERANUS. Quid vult demonstrare per hoc quod ait: Omnia tempus habent? Quod si omnia tempus habent, ergo aeternae Divinitatis substantia, tempus habet? SALONIUS. Absit; illa quippe ineffabilis aeterna maiestatis divinae essentia quae omnia creavit ex nihilo, non loco clauditur, non tempore coangustatur, non ullo spatio terminatur: et idcirco Salomon, ut ostenderet de quibus hoc dixerit, statim subiungit dicens, Et suis spatiis transeunt universa sub coelo. Vult enim demonstrare quod contraria sibi sunt omnia quae in mundo sunt, et nihil est perpetuum ex omnibus quae sub coelo sunt, et ista tempus continent. Salonius Viennensis, Expositio Mystica in Ecclesiasten Source: Migne PL 53.998b-c

Veranus: What does he wish to show through this which he says, 'Everything has its time.' 1 Because if everything has its time, then the substance of the eternal Divinity must have its time? Salonius: Let it not be. Certainly that eternal essence of ineffable majestic Divinity which created everything from nothing is not enclosed in any place, nor bound in the any time, nor limited by any space, and therefore Solomon, so that he might show what things he was speaking of, instantly adds, 'and with their own spans they pass away beneath heaven.' For he wishes to show that everything in the world is unlike heaven, and nothing is forever among all the things beneath heaven, but they have their time. Salonius of Geneva, A Spiritual Exposition of Ecclesiastes 1 Eccl 3.1