# “Time hath no place in eternity” by John Owen

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“Let us a little also fix our minds towards some of the glorious, essential, incommunicable
properties of God’s nature distinctly.

Consider His eternity. This Moses proposeth, to bring the souls of believers to 
submission, trust, and waiting: **Ps. 90:1**, “From everlasting to everlasting thou
art God;”—“One that hath his being and subsistence not in a duration of time, but
in eternity itself.”

So doth **Habakkuk 1:12**, “Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy
One?” and hence he draws his conclusion against making haste in any condition, and
for tarrying and waiting for God.

The like consideration is managed by David also, **Ps. 102:27**.

How inconceivable is this glorious divine property unto the thoughts and minds of
men! How weak are the ways and terms whereby they go about to express it!

One says it is a “perpetual duration.” He that says most, only signifies what he
knows of what it is not.

We are of yesterday, change every moment, and are leaving our station tomorrow.

God is still the same, was so before the world was,—from eternity.

And now I cannot think what I have said, but only have intimated what I adore.

The whole duration of the world, from the beginning unto the end, takes up no space
in this eternity of God: for how longsoever it hath continued or may yet continue,
it will all amount but to so many thousand years, so long a time.

And time hath no place in eternity.”

–John Owen, “[A Practical Exposition of Psalm 130](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513921?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
[_The Works of John Owen, Volume 6 _](https://www.amazon.com/dp/0851513921?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1684/2000), 6: 622.

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