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

world. From this, the disciples had contracted the most vehement pain and sorrow: as they who had hitherto lived most happily and tranquilly under the protection of the Lord, of which they now seemed about to be despoiled, and therefore about to be exposed to the injuries of all enemies and to various and most grave dangers. Therefore, the Lord comforts them, and in them the whole posterity of the pious, until the end of the age, with this present discourse, and seems to admonish both the disciples and us primarily that we should not look so much at the present, but rather at the future. For the former are momentary and fleeting, but the latter are everlasting and stable. But because many are currently hanging in perplexity, thinking many and various things about that future life, whether there is any other happiness after this life, our Lord demonstrates by the words already recited that there is another life after this one, that there is a certain place of happiness and an indubitable salvation, and therefore that he is now going away through death, so that he may eventually prepare and open those blessed seats, beautifully arranged, for his elect. Therefore, the disciples ought not to be sad because of his departure or death. For this will be fruitful and salutary. He further promises that he will return