Therefore the empyrean heaven was not created together with formless matter.

The empyrean heaven, then, was not created contemporaneously with formless matter.

Objection 1: It would seem that time was not created simultaneously with formless matter.

Objection 1: It would seem that the formless matter of all corporeal things is the same.

Therefore time was not created with formless matter.

Lastly, to fill consciousness, they invent an incomprehensible action of this formless matter upon this matterless thought.

Objection 1: It would seem that the empyrean heaven was not created at the same time as formless matter.

Or we may say that formless matter is one with the unity of order, as all bodies are one in the order of corporeal creatures.

Whether the Formless Matter of All Corporeal Things Is the Same?

Whether Time Was Created Simultaneously with Formless Matter?

(3) Whether the empyrean heaven was created contemporaneously with formless matter?

1: The teaching of Augustine rests on the opinion that the angelic nature and formless matter precede time by origin or nature.