It is irrelevant that there is already a past preceding its future at this point; for the temporal point is a qualitative limit (and that it is to be taken as qualitative rests on its determination of being completed, elapsed, and therefore of not continuing), and so time is interrupted in it; the past is then without connection to a future that could be called such only in respect to it, and therefore, without this connection to a future, itself only time in general, which has an absolute beginning.