{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let us now see what the Apostle Peter predicted concerning\r\nthis judgment. \"There shall come,\" he says, \"in the last\r\ndays scoffers.... Nevertheless we, according to His promise,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_380\">[Pg 380]</a></span>\r\nlook for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth\r\nrighteousness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_762_762\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_762_762\">[762]</a> There is nothing said here about the resurrection\r\nof the dead, but enough certainly regarding the destruction\r\nof this world. And by his reference to the deluge\r\nhe seems as it were to suggest to us how far we should believe\r\nthe ruin of the world will extend in the end of the\r\nworld. For he says that the world which then was perished,\r\nand not only the earth itself, but also the heavens, by which\r\nwe understand the air, the place and room of which was\r\noccupied by the water. Therefore the whole, or almost the\r\nwhole, of the gusty atmosphere (which he calls heaven, or\r\nrather the heavens, meaning the earth's atmosphere, and not\r\nthe upper air in which sun, moon, and stars are set) was\r\nturned into moisture, and in this way perished together with\r\nthe earth, whose former appearance had been destroyed by the\r\ndeluge. \"But the heavens and the earth which are now, by\r\nthe same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the\r\nday of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.\" Therefore\r\nthe heavens and the earth, or the world which was preserved\r\nfrom the water to stand in place of that world which perished\r\nin the flood, is itself reserved to fire at last in the day of the\r\njudgment and perdition of ungodly men. He does not hesitate\r\nto affirm that in this great change men also shall perish: their\r\nnature, however, shall notwithstanding continue, though in\r\neternal punishments. Some one will perhaps put the question,\r\nIf after judgment is pronounced the world itself is to burn,\r\nwhere shall the saints be during the conflagration, and before\r\nit is replaced by a new heavens and a new earth, since somewhere\r\nthey must be, because they have material bodies? We\r\nmay reply that they shall be in the upper regions into which\r\nthe flame of that conflagration shall not ascend, as neither did\r\nthe water of the flood; for they shall have such bodies that\r\nthey shall be wherever they wish. Moreover, when they have\r\nbecome immortal and incorruptible, they shall not greatly dread\r\nthe blaze of that conflagration, as the corruptible and mortal\r\nbodies of the three men were able to live unhurt in the blazing\r\nfurnace.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-606"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc4a5719f19890b3aa9db3c245ab6349c9af1ec4bef6c916f90a0186b4fa7ea0","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2PE","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Pet. iii. 3-13","verse":3,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_762_762","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. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_762_762","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_762_762\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_762_762\"><span class=\"label\">[762]</span></a> 2 Pet. iii. 3-13. The whole passage is quoted by Augustine.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_762_762","text_sha256":"b1886e45b13d16af4d047c6c048ec1c50f0d47710d665766b8b31b293bd57444","verified":false,"work_id":null}