II. God not bounded by this world's spaces; III. No creature ubiquitous by essence
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II.God according to His substance is not defined or circumscribed by this world's spaces, but is also outside this world.FIRST reason from the testimony of sacred Scripture: 1 Kings 8:27, The heaven of heavens cannot contain You.Job 11:8, Higher than heaven and deeper than hell.SECOND from infinity.THIRD from catholic consent — Chrysostom, Augustine; Hermes Trismegistus: God is a circle whose center is everywhere, circumference nowhere.
Outside this orb God is in Himself, as before this orb was founded.Outside the world He is in only one mode, by substance.III.No creature can be present everywhere by immensity of essence, because God's absolute perfection cannot be formally communicated to any creature.
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II. Deus secundum substantiam suam non definitur aut circumscribitur hujus mundi spatiis, sed etiam extra hunc mundum est. PRIMA ratio a testimonio sacrae Scripturae: I Reg. VIII.27. Caeli caelorum te non capiant. Job XI.8. Excelsior caelo est et profundior inferno. SECUNDA ab infinitate. TERTIA a catholico consensu — Chrysostomus, Augustinus; Hermes Trismegistus: Deum esse circulum, cujus centrum ubique est, circumferentia nusquam. Extra hunc orbem Deus est in seipso, sicut ante hunc orbem conditum. Extra mundum est uno duntaxat modo, per substantiam. III. Nulla creatura potest esse ubique praesens per immensitatem essentiae, quia absoluta Dei perfectio nulli creaturae formaliter communicari potest.