And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passes away.
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Methodius of Olympus
AD 311
We answer, because it is usual for the Scriptures to call the change of the world from its present condition to a better and more glorious one, destruction; as its earlier form is lost in the change of all things to a state of greater splendour; for there is no contradiction nor absurdity in the Holy Scriptures. For not "the world "but the "fashion of this world "passeth away,
