ow far his substance is given a particular
setting amid other things.

It is otherwise, of course, with God. "He is everywhere" does not mean
that He is in every place, for He cannot be in any place at all--but
that every place is present to Him for Him to occupy, although He
Himself can be received by no place, and therefore He cannot anywhere be
in a place, since He is everywhere but in no place. It is the same with
the category of time, as, "A man came yesterday; God is ever." Here
again the predicate of "coming yesterday" denotes not something
substantial, but something happening in terms of time. But the
expression "God is ever" denotes a single Present, summing up His
continual presence in all the past, in all the present--however that
term be used--and in all the future. Philosophers say that "ever" may be
applied to the life of the heavens and other immortal bodies. But as
applied to God it has a different meaning. He is ever, because "ever" is
with Him a term of present time, and there is this great difference
between "now," which is our present, and the divine present. Our present
connotes changing time and sempiternity; God's present, abiding,
unmoved, and immoveable, connotes eternity. Add _semper_ to
_eternity_ and you get the constant, incessant and thereby
perpetual course of our present time, that is to say, sempiternity.[22]

It is just the same with the categories of condition and activity. For
example, we say "A man runs, clothed," "God rules, possessing all
things." Here again nothing substantial is asserted of either subject;
in fact all the categories we have hitherto named arise from what lies
outside substance, and all of them, so to speak, refer to something
other than substance. The difference between the categories is easily
seen by an example. Thus, the terms "man" and "God" refer to the
substance in virtue of which the subject is--man or God. The term "just"
refers to the quality in virtue of which the subject is something, viz.
just; the term "great" to the quantity in virtue of which He is
something, viz. great. No other category save substance, quality, and
quantity refer to the substance of the subject. If I say of one "he is
in the market" or "everywhere," I am applying the category of place,
which is not a category of the substance, like "just" in virtue of
justice. So if I say, "he runs, He rules, he is now, He is e