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The everlasting Now.
“It exists in the nunc stans of the schoolmen—the eternal Now that represented the consciousness of the Supreme Being in mediæval thought.”—Nineteenth Century, December, 1892, p. 953.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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