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Objection 3: It is impossible for an infinite to be traversed. This objection refers to an eternal world in which there exist an infinite number of days prior to today. Since each past day needed to be actualized, one by one, prior to today, it is not possible to arrive at the present day. 81 Aquinas replies to this objection by specifying that traversing can only be understood by considering movement from one determinate point to another. However, this is not the case if past time is infinite. In the infinite succession of past days, there is no first day. Therefore, even though there have been infinitely many past days, each specific past day is finitely close to today. For Aquinas, in the succession of past days, there is no day infinitely distant from today and hence the traversing of the infinite never takes place. 82 For Bonaventure, an infinite succession of past days necessarily requires an the existence of a day that infinitely precedes the present day infinitely. If such an infinitely distant day does not exist, then all days are at limited distance from the present one, which means that they all had 81 82 Baldner and Carroll, Aquinas on Creation, 93. Ibid, 103. Page 32 of 62