68.由于现在论述的主题是过去的先前天，但没有人了解这个主题，所以我按以下顺序来描述它：
⑴先前的天由哪些人构成。
⑵它的性质如何。
⑶它是如何过去的。
68. Since we are now about to deal with the first heaven, which passed away, and since no one knows anything about it, I would like to describe it in the following sequence.
1. Who constituted this first heaven.
2. What it was like.
3. How it passed away.
68. Since my present subject is the first heaven which passed away, a subject unknown to anyone, I should like to describe in order:
(i) The people composing the first heaven.
(ii) Its nature.
(iii) How it passed away.
68. Since the first heaven which passed away is the subject now treated of, and since no one knows anything concerning it, I will describe it in order.
I. Of whom the first heaven consisted.
II. What its quality was.
III. How it passed away.
68. Quia hic nunc agitur de primo caelo quod transivit, et nemo aliquid de eo scit, velim ordine describere,
(i.) Primum caelum a quibus exstiterat;
(ii.) Quale id fuit;
(iii.) Quomodo transivit.