However, a time will come, when all shall be consumed by fire; as Isaiah says of the God of the universe in these words, “That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers.” Isa. xliv. 27.  Reject then the foolish wisdom of this world, Schools of “the wisdom of the world” did, however, teach that the world was a world γενόμενον καὶ φθαρτόν.  cf. Lucretius v. 322, “totum nativum mortali corpore constat.” and receive with me the more simple but infallible doctrine of truth.