  The second preliminary consideration in Damian’s main approach to the second question focuses on divine providence. Drawing mainly on Augustine’s writings, Damian presents a lengthy discussion concerning God’s eternity and his relation to created beings (604C–608A; see also 599A–B and 618C–D). God is immutable, both in himself and in his relation to creation. He is not in any time or place, but all times and places, as well as all creatures, are contained in “the treasure of God’s wisdom”, or in his providence (providentia). To God there is no past or future; everything is present to him in an eternal now. To him, nothing changes or moves; everything that streams by or goes past in time stands immutably and eternally in his providence.