Luc. What if such seeming contradictions aim

Where human understanding cannot reach?

But granting for the sake of argument,

And for that only, what you now premise;

What follows?

Cipr. Why, that if, as Pliny writes,

Deity by its very definition

Be one, eternal, absolute, all wise,

All good, omnipotent, all ear, all eyes,

Incapable of disintegration—