The Nature of Time

Time is divisible but the now or an instant is not a part of time for apart measures and it is necessary that the whole should be composed from the parts. Time does not appear to be composed from instance besides with respect to this now which appears to bound and separate to the past and the future whether it always remains one and the same or is another and another, there is no part of time which isn't once another and another. One part does not comprehend and another is comprehended just as the less is comprehended by the greater time. That which now is not but was before must necessarily once have perished if this be the case instance cannot subsist together with each other but the prior