"The words are set and unchanging.
The order of nature was God-given and unchanging.
To function properly they typically require that their environments be highly structured and unchanging.
From Seder Night to Titipu the ritual was comforting and unchanging.
It flew in the face of the prevailing wisdom that, over the largest of scales, the universe was fixed and unchanging.
In Islam, by contrast, "there can be only one law": the Shariah, which is God's law and thus "eternal" and "unchanging".
Granted my selections are boring and unchanging.
An eternal being, by contrast, is (to use my earlier description) stable, uniform, and unchanging.
From this he draws the conclusion that what is real must be ungenerable, imperishable, indivisible, and unchanging.
Augustine took from the Platonists the idea that the really real things, the greatest and best of beings, are stable, uniform, and unchanging.
The arguments of fragment 8, on this view, are then understood as showing that what can be thought and talked about is, surprisingly, without variation in time and space, that is, absolutely one and unchanging.
