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

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and another invisible, spiritual, immutable, and incorruptible and everlasting. That visible and mutable one is that very one of which we have spoken up to now, which has those regions or orbs. David, having spoken of the same, said, "The heavens are the work of Your hands: they shall perish; but You remain, and Your years shall not fail." For if they shall perish, they are certainly mutable and corruptible. Yet, lest anyone should understand this of annihilation, he adds how they are to perish, and says, "As a garment You shall change them, and they shall be changed." Whence other places of the Scriptures make mention of the renewal and repurgation of the heavens, namely of these lower ones. Of which I shall say no more now, since the blessed Augustine has discussed that matter fully in his book De Civitate Dei On the City of God.

Heaven is one visible, another invisible.

Heaven is invisible and supreme.

Moreover, that invisible and spiritual heaven is above all other heavens, the outermost and supreme, truly the throne, seat, and house of the Father and of our God. This seat is attributed to God just as I had begun to say a little earlier, not that He is included therein, as if in a corruptible house. For God is of infinite and immense power, filling all things, everywhere present, preserving all things: therefore this heaven is called the seat and house of God,