X.  Now since we have ascertained that God is incorporeal, let us proceed a little further with our examination.  Is He Nowhere or Somewhere.  For if He is Nowhere, Nowhere is in this passage used in an ambiguous sense.  As asserted of God, it means that His being is in no way limited by place:  not that He has no existence in place, for He is everywhere, and He transcends all place.  Before the creation of the Universe He existed, and He created Place, which therefore cannot be the seat of His Being. then some person of a very inquiring turn of mind might ask, How is it then that He can even exist?  For if the non-existent is nowhere, then that which is nowhere is also perhaps non-existent.  But if He is Somewhere, He must be either in the Universe, or above the Universe.  And if He is in the Universe, then He must be either in some part or in the whole.  If in some part, then He will be circumscribed by that part which is less than Himself; but if everywhere, then by one which is further and greater—I mean the Universal, which contains the Particular; if the Universe is to be contained by the Universe, and no place is to be free from circumscription.  This follows if He is contained in the Universe.  And besides, where was He before the Universe was created, for this is a point of no little difficulty.  But if He is above the Universe, is there nothing to distinguish this from the Universe, and where is this above situated?  And how could this Transcendence and that which is transcended be distinguished in thought, if there is not a limit to divide and define them?  Is it not necessary that there shall be some mean to mark off the Universe from that which is above the Universe?  And what could this be but Place, which we have already rejected?  For I have not yet brought forward the point that God would be altogether circumscript, if He were even comprehensible in thought:  for comprehension is one form of circumscription.