The Heavens
place · 4 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the heavens · heaven · fifth heaven · third heaven
in the texts
Protrepticus
The recurring heavenly destination of salvation, colonization, and Christ's ascent.
you shall see the heavens, O old man, you who do not see Thebes.
the Word of God shall steer you, and the Holy Spirit shall bring you to anchor in the harbours of the heavens.
He has turned the setting into a rising, and crucified death into life, and, snatching man out of destruction, has hung him up in the ether, transplanting corruption into incorruption and changing earth into heavens — the husbandman of God, "signalling good things, and rousing the peoples to a good work," reminding them of the true livelihood, and granting us the great and truly divine and inalien …
Stromata
Numbered celestial realms visited in mystical rapture and prophetic vision, reflecting a cosmology of multiple heavens.
"And the Spirit took me up and carried me to a fifth heaven, and I beheld angels called lords, with their diadem set upon them in the Holy Spirit;
The apostle will bear witness to what has been said, saying, "I know a man in Christ caught up to the third heaven, and thence into paradise, who heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter" — thus hinting at the unspeakableness of God;
Barlaam and Josaphat
The heavenly realm to which Christ ascended and where he sits at the right hand of the Father.
And after forty days he ascended into the heavens, and so sits at the right hand of the Father;
Adversus Marcionem
The heavenly realm identified as the citizenship of believers and the place from which Christ comes.
But if Christ, coming from the heavens, transfigured the body of our lowliness, conformed to the body of his glory, then this our body shall rise, which is humbled in sufferings, and cast into the earth by the very law of death.