And that which is older, must always be older than something which
is younger?
True.
Then, that which becomes older than itself, also becomes at the same
time younger than itself, if it is to have something to become older
than.
What do you mean?
I mean this:-A thing does not need to become different from
another thing which is already different; it is different, and if
its different has become, it has become different; if its different
will be, it will be different; but of that which is becoming
different, there cannot have been, or be about to be, or yet be, a
different-the only different possible is one which is becoming.
That is inevitable.
But, surely, the elder is a difference relative to the younger,
and to nothing else.
True.
Then that which becomes older than itself must also, at the same
time, become younger than itself?
Yes.
But again, it is true that it cannot become for a longer or for a
shorter time than itself, but it must become, and be, and have become,
and be about to be, for the same time with itself?
That again is inevitable.
Then things which are in time, and partake of time, must in every
case, I suppose, be of the same age with themselves; and must also
become at once older and younger than themselves?
Yes.
But the one did not partake of those affections?
Not at all.
Then it does not partake of time, and is not in any time?
So the argument shows.
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