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Future time is really always finite because the actual infinity of the future days will never be
actualized. The infinite past time is problematic because there “we are in effect confronted with
an actual infinity, or an infinite series of events that has been already actualized.” 104
Mathematically, however, there is no difference between an infinity of the past time and an
infinity of the future time. In the next chapter, we will consider the mathematical concept of
infinity, the seeds of which we have already encountered in Aquinas’ and Bonaventure’s
treatments of the objections from infinity.
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Baldner and Carroll, Aquinas on Creation, 122.
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