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

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ought to be unshaken and eternal, is not to be placed in voluble and temporal things; but in the heavens, I think it is said, in the spiritual firmaments, where eternal justice dwells. So he.

But we say that this heaven, the house of God our Father, in which we are to dwell forever with God and all His saints, is a certain place distinct and separated from the earth and all other lower parts, so that we who still dwell on earth are truly said to live in exile. For Paul most openly says, "While we are at home in the body, we are pilgrims from God": not that God is not in us, and we are not in God, but that we still dwell on the earth, and have not yet migrated into our fatherland in the heavenly seats. Therefore, we see that it is by no means to be committed that, just as we believe the immense majesty of God to penetrate through all things and to reach to all things, we also extend heaven, the seat of God and the blessed, together with God through all things. And indeed, the Scriptures have never confounded heaven with the earth, or said that heaven is ever on earth, but have manifestly separated it from the earth. David says, "The Lord has prepared His seat in heaven, and He rules all things with His power."

This divine heaven is a certain place