And therfore, [in] worde moste semeliche in lykenesse to everlasting
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presence, he took his sentence; for thinges that here-beforn
ben passed utterly be immovable, y-lyke to the everlasting
presence. As thilke that ben there never mowe not ben present,
so thinges of tyme passed ne mowe in no wyse not ben passed;
but al thinges in your temporal presence, that passen in a litel
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while, shullen ben not present. So than in that, it is more
similitude to the everlasting presence, significacion of tyme passed