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Confessiones (PL)

CAPUT II. De duplici coelo et terra.

2. Confitetur altitudini tuae humilitas linguae meae, quoniam tu fecisti coelum et terram; hoc coelum quod video, terramque quam calco, unde est haec terra quam porto, tu fecisti. Sed ubi est coelum coeli, Domine, de quo audivimus in voce Psalmi: Coelum coeli Domino; terram autem dedit filiis hominum ¹? Ubi est coelum quod cernimus, cui terra est hoc omne quod cernimus? Hoc enim totum corporeum, non ubique totum ita accepit speciem [Col. 0827] pulchram in novissimis, cujus fundus est terra nostra; sed ad illud coelum coeli, etiam terrae nostrae coelum terra est. Et hoc utrumque magnum corpus non absurde terra est, ad illud nescio quale coelum quod Domino est, non filiis hominum.

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The Confessions of St. Augustin In Thirteen Books

Chapter II.--Of the Double Heaven,--The Visible, and the Heaven of Heavens.

2. The weakness of my tongue confesseth unto Thy Highness, seeing that Thou madest heaven and earth. This heaven which I see, and this earth upon which I tread (from which is this earth that I carry about me), Thou hast made. But where is that heaven of heavens, ¹ O Lord, of which we hear in the words of the Psalm, The heaven of heavens are the Lord's, but the earth hath He given to the children of men? ² Where is the heaven, which we behold not, in comparison of which all this, which we behold, is earth? For this corporeal whole, not as a whole everywhere, hath thus received its beautiful figure in these lower parts, of which the bottom is our earth; but compared with that heaven of heavens, even the heaven of our earth is but earth; yea, each of these great bodies is not absurdly called earth, as compared with that, I know not what manner of heaven, which is the Lord's, not the sons' of men.