note).

Q.E.D.
PROP.XXII.

Nevertheless in God there is necessarily an idea, which expresses the essence of this or that human body under the form of eternity.
Proof .-- God is the cause, not only of the existence of this or that human body, but also of its essence (I.xxv.).

This essence, therefore, must necessarily be conceived through the very essence of God (I.Ax.

iv.), and be thus conceived by a certain eternal necessity (I.xvi.); and this conception must necessarily exist in God (II.