3480. Some spirits were of the kind that had reasoned about the creation of the universe and what the Lord had been 1before the creation of the universe, and in fact, from eternity, and that the eternal could not be ascribed to the Lord, as well as other such wicked reasoning.
Footnotes:
1. The autograph has quid fuerit, but compare 3477, which has quid fecerit, "what He had been doing."
3480. Some spirits were of such a quality that in reasoning concerning the creation of the world, [they made it a question] what the Lord could have been before the creation and from eternity, and [finally inferred] that eternity could not be predicated of the Lord; besides other outrageous things of like nature.
3480. Quidam spiritus tales erant, ut ratiocinati de mundi creatione, et quid Dominus fuerit ante mundi creationem, et quidem ab aeterno, sic nec aeternum potuit praedicari de Domino, praeter nefaria talia;