QUESTION 66

ON THE ORDER OF CREATION TOWARDS DISTINCTION

(In Four Articles)

We must next consider the work of distinction; first, the ordering

of creation towards distinction; secondly, the distinction itself.

Under the first head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether formlessness of created matter preceded in time its

formation?

(2) Whether the matter of all corporeal things is the same?

(3) Whether the empyrean heaven was created contemporaneously with

formless matter?

(4) Whether time was created simultaneously with it?

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