How much I would have
to labor in order to ascend into the first heaven; how much more difficult it
would be for me to be worthy of the second! I would need to become an equal to
Paul in order to ascend into the third (see 2 Cor 12.2); even if I were to
become like Paul, I would hardly get to the sixth heaven . . .(Psalm 76 Homily
3 in Homilies on the Psalms: Codex Monacensis Graecus 314 [The Fathers
of the Church; trans. Joseph W. Trigg; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic
University of America Press, 2020], 264)
