3.  Our Lord Jesus Christ, then, comes from heaven; and He comes with glory at the end of this world, in the last day.  For of this world there is to be an end, and this created world is to be re-made anew The Benedictine Editor suggests that Cyril “is refuting those who said that the Universe was to perish utterly, an opinion which seems to be somehow imputed to Origen by Methodius, or Proclus, in Epiphanius (Hæres. lxiv. 31, 32).”  On Origen’s much controverted opinions concerning the beginning and end of the world, see Huet. Origeniana, II. 4–6: and Bp. Westcott, Dictionary of Christian Biography, “Origen,” pp. 137, 138..  For since corruption, and theft, and adultery, and every sort of sins have been poured forth over the earth, and blood has been mingled with blood Hos. iv. 2. in the world, therefore, that this wondrous dwelling-place may not remain filled with iniquity, this world passeth away, that the fairer world may be made manifest.  And wouldest thou receive the proof of this out of the words of Scripture?  Listen to Esaias, saying, And the heaven shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all the stars shall fall, as leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig-tree Is. xxxiv. 4..  The Gospel also says, The sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven Matt. xxiv. 29..  Let us not sorrow, as if we alone died; the stars also shall die; but perhaps rise again.  And the Lord rolleth up the heavens, not that He may destroy them, but that He may raise them up again more beautiful.  Hear David the Prophet saying, Thou, Lord, in the beginning didst lay the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Thy hands; they shall perish, but Thou remainest Ps. cii. 25, 26; Heb. i. 10–12..  But some one will say, Behold, he says plainly that they shall perish.  Hear in what sense he says, they shall perish; it is plain from what follows; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment; and as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed.  For as a man is said to “perish,” according to that which is written, Behold, how the righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart Is. lvii. 1., and this, though the resurrection is looked for; so we look for a resurrection, as it were, of the heavens also.  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood Joel ii. 31..  Here let converts from the Manichees gain instruction, and no longer make those lights their gods; nor impiously think, that this sun which shall be darkened is Christ Cat. vi. 13; xi. 21..  And again hear the Lord saying, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away Matt. xxiv. 35.; for the creatures are not as precious as the Master’s words.