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There's nothing like a quote by Jonathan Edwards to start your Monday—and you could win some free books.

I (sort of) have an idea of what he is getting at here, but I wonder if any of you want to take a swing at it? Edwards is assuredly not writing a riddle, but this is dense content.

If you're interested, comment a brief explanation of what Edwards is saying in Miscellanies #125[a]. Whoever gives the "best explanation" in 250 words or less will be awarded three new publications from 2010:

The contest ends Tuesday midnight. The winner will be announced on Wednesday.

Edwards writes in Miscellanies #125[a]:

'Tis certain with me that the world exists anew every moment, that the existence of things every moment ceases and is every moment renewed. For instance, in the existence of bodies, for there to be resistance, or tendency to some place; 'tis not numerically the same resistance that exists the next moment, 'tis evident, because this existence may be in different places. But yet this existence is continued so far, that there is respect had to it in all the future existences; 'tis evident in all things continually. Now past existence can't be continued so that respect should be had to it, otherwise than mentally. If the world this moment should be annihilated, so that nothing should really and actually exist any more; the existence of the world could not be continued so that, if another world after a time should be created, that world should exist after this or that manner from respect to the manner of the existence of this, or should be so only because this had been thus or thus. Indeed, we every moment see the same proof of a God as we should have seen, if we had seen [him] create the world at first. Revelation 4:11, "For thy pleasure they are and were created."