xiii. The fact that the traditional conception of “eternity” (Ewigkeit) as signifying the “standing “now” (nunc stans), has been drawn from the ordinary way of understanding time and has been defined with an orientation towards the idea of ‘constant’ presence-at-hand, does not need to be discussed in detail. If God’s eternity can be ‘construed’ philosophically, then it may be understood only as a more primordial temporality which is ‘infinite’. Whether the way afforded by the via negationis et eminentiae is a possible one, remains to be seen. (BTMR)