“People were talking this way as if the flood had never occurred and as if fire had never come down from heaven in the past.”
Hilary of Arles, 5th c. — INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY ON 2 PETER
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4And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
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2That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
— 2 Peter 3:4 —
5For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: