Eleonore Stump says, "It has also been persuasively argued that Aquinas's De aeternitate mundi was directed in particular against his Franciscan colleague in theology, John Pecham."
Eleonore Stump mengatakan, "Telah dikemukakan juga secara persuasif bahwa De aeternitate mundi karya Aquinas ditujukan secara khusus terhadap rekannya teologi dari Fransiskan, John Pecham."