II. Whether the world perishes as to substance or only qualities is uncertain; commoner opinion: renovation
II. Whether this world will truly perish as to substance, or only as to its qualities, is uncertain. The more common sentence is that the world will not simply perish but is to be renewed, and Paul strongly urges this (Romans 8:19, 20, 21, 22), and because new heavens and a new earth are often mentioned in the Scriptures.
The ancients, whose sentences Gerhard Vossius, a man of diffuse learning — whose works we cite here gathers as it were in a medley (disputation On the End of the World, thesis 3, page 280), all thought that this world will not utterly perish but is to be renewed: as Irenaeus, Andrew of Caesarea, Probus in Epiphanius, Eusebius, Philastrius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Chrysostom, Cyril of Alexandria, Theodoret, Aeneas of Gaza, Elias of Crete on Gregory of Nazianzus's tenth oration, Basil the emperor Constantine, Oecumenius, Euthymius. From the Latins: Hilary, Jerome, Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Augustine, Julian of Toledo, Bede, Alcuin, Ambrosius Ansbertus, Olympiodorus, Haymo, Anselm or Hervaeus Brito, Peter Lombard, Otto of Freising, Hugh Etherianus, Hildegard, Vincent of Beauvais, Nicholas of Lyra, Ludolph the Saxon Carthusian, and others.
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II. Utrum vere hic mundus, quantum ad substantiam, an vero duntaxat quantum ad qualitates suas, interiturus sit, incertum est. Communior sententia est, mundum non simpliciter periturum, sed esse renovandum, impenseque hanc suadet Paulus Rom. 8.19.20.21.22. & quod caeli novi, terraeque novae in scripturis saepe sit mentio. Veteres, quorum sententias quasi per saturam colligit diffusae eruditionis vir Gerh. Vossius, cujus hic vitula aramus, disp. de fine mundi thes. 3. pag. 280. omnes putarunt, mundum hunc non penitus interiturum, sed esse renovandum, ut Irenaeus, Andreas Caesariensis, Probus apud Epiphanium, Eusebius, Philastrius, Cyrillus Hierosolymitanus, Chrysostomus, Cyrillus Alexandrinus, Theodoretus, Aeneas Gazeus, Elias Cretensis in orat. 10. Greg. Nazianz. Basilius Imp. Constant. Oecumenius, Euthymius. E Latinis Hilarius, Hieronymus, Quintus Julius Hilarianus, Augustinus, Julianus Toletanus, Beda, Alcuinus, Ambrosius Ansbertus, Olympiodorus, Haymo, Anselmus sive Hervaeus Brito, Petrus Lombardus, Otto Frisingensis, Hugo Aetherianus, Hildegardis, Vincentius Burgundus, Nicolaus Liranus, Ludolphus Saxo Carthusianus &c.