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

TREATISE ON THE WORDS OF THE LORD.

because in it He will show Himself most fully to His own to be seen and enjoyed, because in it we shall dwell forever, incorruptible. Indeed, God is now said to inhabit inaccessible light. What we are now, or as long as we live in this corruptible flesh, we cannot see God. "No man shall see me," says the Lord, "and live." No one, says John, has ever seen God; but when the soul has migrated from this corruptible flesh, when the body has risen from the dead, and we have been clarified and purified, and made fit to receive the eternal light, then certainly with joy and as fully as will suffice for true and absolute felicity, we shall behold that light, and we shall dwell forever in that most purified place of heaven. For John said, "We know that if He appears, we shall be like Him: because we shall see Him as He is." And Paul, "We see now indeed as through a mirror, but then face to face." Even the Lord Jesus Himself is read to have said, "Father, whom You have given me, I will that where I am, they also may be with me, that they may see my glory."

What kind is the supreme heaven

This heaven is unique and most ample, and of glory far greater than human sense