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For here we find it said in the\r\nsacred books of the Hebrews, to that God whom this great\r\nphilosopher acknowledges to be terrible even to the gods\r\nthemselves, \"The heavens are the work of Thy hands: they\r\nshall perish.\" When the heavens, the higher and more secure\r\npart of the world, perish, shall the world itself be preserved?\r\nIf this idea is not relished by Jupiter, whose oracle is quoted\r\nby this philosopher as an unquestionable authority in rebuke\r\nof the credulity of the Christians, why does he not similarly\r\nrebuke the wisdom of the Hebrews as folly, seeing that the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_396\">[Pg 396]</a></span>\r\nprediction is found in their most holy books? But if this\r\nHebrew wisdom, with which Porphyry is so captivated that\r\nhe extols it through the utterances of his own gods, proclaims\r\nthat the heavens are to perish, how is he so infatuated as to\r\ndetest the faith of the Christians partly, if not chiefly, on this\r\naccount, that they believe the world is to perish?—though how\r\nthe heavens are to perish if the world does not is not easy to\r\nsee. And, indeed, in the sacred writings which are peculiar\r\nto ourselves, and not common to the Hebrews and us,—I\r\nmean the evangelic and apostolic books,—the following expressions\r\nare used: \"The figure of this world passeth away;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_800_800\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_800_800\">[800]</a>\r\n\"The world passeth away;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_801_801\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_801_801\">[801]</a> \"Heaven and earth shall pass\r\naway,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_802_802\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_802_802\">[802]</a>—expressions which are, I fancy, somewhat milder than\r\n\"They shall <i>perish</i>.\" In the Epistle of the Apostle Peter, too,\r\nwhere the world which then was is said to have perished,\r\nbeing overflowed with water, it is sufficiently obvious what\r\npart of the world is signified by the whole, and in what sense\r\nthe word <i>perished</i> is to be taken, and what heavens were kept\r\nin store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and\r\nperdition of ungodly men.<a id=\"FNanchor_803_803\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_803_803\">[803]</a> And when he says a little afterwards,\r\n\"The day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the\r\nwhich the heavens shall pass away with a great rush, and the\r\nelements shall melt with burning heat, and the earth and the\r\nworks which are in it shall be burned up;\" and then adds,\r\n\"Seeing, then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what\r\nmanner of persons ought ye to be?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_804_804\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_804_804\">[804]</a>—these heavens which\r\nare to perish may be understood to be the same which he said\r\nwere kept in store reserved for fire; and the elements which\r\nare to be burned are those which are full of storm and disturbance\r\nin this lowest part of the world in which he said\r\nthat these heavens were kept in store; for the higher heavens\r\nin whose firmament are set the stars are safe, and remain in\r\ntheir integrity. For even the expression of Scripture, that\r\n\"the stars shall fall from heaven,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_805_805\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_805_805\">[805]</a> not to mention that a\r\ndifferent interpretation is much preferable, rather shows\r\nthat the heavens themselves shall remain, if the stars are to\r\nfall from them. This expression, then, is either figurative, as<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_397\">[Pg 397]</a></span>\r\nis more credible, or this phenomenon will take place in this\r\nlowest heaven, like that mentioned by Virgil,—</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-627"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b8b9d373aa9dce7bb6d746116ade3b6672bf44c96d5ce8f13db5acaa09cba32f","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. vii. 31","verse":31,"verse_end":31}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_800_800","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. 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