This was the orthodox medieval view, to be found in Peter Abelard’s commentary on the Works of the Six Days,[1204] in the _De situ terrarum_,[1205] and in the _Image du monde_.[1206] Gervase of Tilbury copies it word for word from the _De imagine mundi_[1207] but gives additional details in another connection,[1208]where he tells us that Paradise was the seat of the first of the four universal monarchies, that of Adam; that it was so called because of its delights, for “delight” is the meaning of the word “Eden,” and that the Garden makes a spot of marvelous deliciousness, separated from our inhabited earth by a long tract of land and sea and elevated so high that it reaches the sphere of the moon, so high that the waters of the Deluge failed to disturb it.[1209] Peter Lombard explained why it is thought that Paradise is in the East:[1210] Scripture, he said, teaches us that God made man outside of Paradise and placed him ready-fashioned in the Garden of Delights which had been planted by the divine power at the beginning of time (_a principio_). In an old translation, Peter explained, instead of this phrase, _a principio_, the words _ad Orientem_ were given, and consequently the earlier translator would have had us believe that Paradise was to be found in the eastern parts of the earth. Peter added that a long stretch of land and sea cut Paradise off from the regions inhabited by men and that it was situated on a height touching the circle of the moon’s orbit, whence it came about that the waters of the Deluge could not penetrate thither.