The earth and all inhabitants are dissolved: I hold up the pillars of it. Selah.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
6. But now what? "The earth hath flowed down" (ver. 3). If the earth hath flowed down, whence hath it flowed down except by sins? Therefore also they are called delinquencies. To delinquish is as it were by a kind of liquidity to slip down from the stability of firmness in virtue and righteousness. For it is through desire of lower things that every man sinneth: as he is strengthened by the love of higher things, so he falleth down and as it were melteth away by desire of lower things. This flux of things by the sins of man the merciful forgiver observing, being a merciful forgiver of sins, not yet an exactor of punishments, He observeth and saith: The earth herself indeed hath flowed down by them that dwell in her. That which followeth is an exposition, not an addition. As though thou wert saying, in what manner hath the earth flowed down? Have the foundations been withdrawn, and hath anything therein been swallowed up in a sort of gulf? What I mean by earth is all they that dwell the...
Melted. Symmachus and Houbigant, "is strengthened. "(Haydock)
After the last fire the earth shall remain, though changed in quality. (Worthington) (2 Peter iii. 10.)
God destroys and establishes kingdoms. (Calmet)
