The Infinite Subsists According to Accident

It is not possible for the infinite to be, as subsisting in energy, and as essence, and a principle. Neither number nor magnitude can be so, of which the infinite is a certain essential passive quality. The infinite therefore subsists according to accident, but if this be the case, it has been said that it cannot be called a principle. But we consider with respect to sensibles, and those things which we make the subject of our discussion, whether body, infinite in augmentation, is in these or not. Perhaps however, this inquiry is more universal, whether it be possible that the infinite can subsist in mathematical entities, in intelligibles, and in things which have no