Augustine's doubt on the heavens; Greeks and Latins before him affirm corruption of the heavens

Augustine dissents (City of God book 20, chapter 24), and speaking doubtfully on Psalm 101: There are, he says, three heavens of heavens superior in the firmament. But whether they themselves also will perish by fire, or only those heavens which also perished in the flood, is a somewhat more scrupulous debate among the learned; nor can it easily be explained, especially in the narrowness of time. But how many now follow Augustine's sentence, Sixtus of Siena shows (Sacred Library book 6, annotation 246) and Feuardentius on Irenaeus book 4, chapter 6.

Against whom you will set the fathers, both all the Greeks and the Latins who wrote before Augustine — namely Justin Martyr, or whoever else, in the Confutation of Aristotle's Dogmas book 2 On the Heavens denying that the heavens can be corrupted; Irenaeus book 4, chapter 6; Ambrose Hexaemeron book 1, chapter 6; and among juniors also Augustinus Eugubinus on 2 Peter 3; and Hieronymus Magius On the Burning of the World book 2, chapters 6 and 7.