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

A decorative drop cap letter D featuring an ornate floral or foliage design.Our Lord Jesus Christ said to his disciples in the holy Gospel according to John, chapter 14:

In my Father's house there are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again, and take you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also. And whither I go you know, and the way you know.

The reason for discoursing upon these words of the Lord concerning the heavenly fatherland was provided chiefly by that which he had explicitly stated before these words, that he was already about to go from this