Theophylact of Ohrid

That the destruction of the present world will be by means of fire is a thought not of Christians alone, but also of pagan sages. But someone will say: why create the world if it must again turn to corruption? To such a person we will say that the world will not be utterly annihilated, but will be destroyed in order to be renewed, which is why the prophet also says: "and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth" (Ps. 104:30). The sensible creation, when made by God, was "very good" (Gen. …

Commentary on 2 Peter ↗

Justin Martyr

Then further concerning Him, that He alone is powerful, both to institute judgment on the deeds performed in life, and on the ignorance of the Deity [displayed by men], I can adduce witnesses from your own ranks; and first Sophocles, who speaks as follows: "That time of times shall come, shall surely come, When from the golden ether down shall fall Fire's teeming treasure, and in burning flames All things of earth and heaven shall be consumed; And then, when all creation is dissolved, The sea's last wave shall die upon the shore, The …

On the Sovereignty of God, Chapter III ↗

Bede

But the heavens and the earth which are now, etc. Therefore it is clear from the view of blessed Peter that the earth and those heavens which perished in the flood, and were restored after the flood, are affirmed to be destroyed by final fire.

Commentary on the Catholic Epistles ↗

Bonaventure

Fire will precede the face of the Judge, by which the face of the earth will be burned up, so that the figure of this world will perish by the conflagration of worldly fires, just as the flood came about by the inundation of waters. Just as the world was previously destroyed and in a certain way purged by the element of water, which is cold, against the heat and filth of lust; so the final world will be purged by fire on account of the cooling of charity and the coldness of malice and avarice, which will reign at the end as if in the …

Breviloquium, Part 7 ↗