Isaiah 45:18
Douay-Rheims
For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens, God himself that formed the earth, and made it, the very maker thereof: he did not create it in vain: he formed it to be inhabited. I am the Lord, and there is no other.
Methodius of Olympus
For in reality God did not establish the universe in vain or to no purpose but destruction, as those weak-minded people say, but to exist and be inhabited and continue. Therefore the earth and the heaven must exist again after the conflagration and shaking of all things.
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A.D. 311 · on Isa 45:18 (ON THE RESURRECTION 1:8)
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.