444: heaven Feb 25, 2016

Heaven is a complicated subject, but in the Christian faith, it is often represented as being in the sky. Book 1 chapter 3 of Confessions by St. Augustine starts with "caelum" in a sentence ("Capiunt ergone te caelum et terra...?"), meaning 'sky' but with the meaning in English of 'heaven'. Heaven is not only represented as the sky, but it is the sky. 'Heaven' even comes from the Old English 'heofon', which is related to the modern German word, 'Himmel' which means 'sky'.