Tractatio verborum domini, in domo patris mei mansiones multae sunt, &c. ex XIIII. cap. Evang. secundum Ioannem

TREATISE ON THE WORDS OF THE LORD.

There is one heaven which has many spheres

and of rains. There is also the starry heaven, which has its own parts as it were, according to the proportion of the fixed and wandering stars. Thus they are commonly accustomed to enumerate the firmament, in which the stars are fixed, and the orbs which they call spheres of the planets. Nor are there wanting those who place above the starry heaven a watery or crystalline heaven, and the primum mobile the first moved sphere. However that may be, Scripture names that lower part of the air heaven: from which birds are named, the birds of the heaven. And rains are given from heaven: these not distilling, the heaven is said to be closed. In the heavens, Scripture places the Sun, the Moon, and the stars. Moses says, "The heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and all things that are in it, are the Lord God's." David says, "Praise God, O heavens of heavens." And Solomon says, "If the heavens of heavens do not contain You, how much less this house?" Whence Paul says that Christ ascended above all heavens, namely from this corruptible world into the eternal heaven, where there is light and perpetual glory.

For it is most rightly taught that one heaven is indeed visible or aspectable, which they also call material and mutable or corruptible: