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  • Where Aquinas attributes to the angels an aeviternal life that is neither temporal nor eternal, but a middle ground between them, Bonaventure holds that they have an aeviternal existence so far as the permanence or imperishability of their being is concerned, but that their existence also has a temporal aspect.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • As finite spiritual beings, they exist in a manner that lies between temporality and eternity: their existence is aeviternal.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

  • Precisely because it is intrinsically mutable, the physical universe is neither eternal nor aeviternal, even were it without beginning and end.

    The Angels and Us Mortimer J. Adler 1982

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