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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Methodius of Olympus
But if our opponents say, How then is it, if the universe be not destroyed, that the Lord says that "heaven and earth shall pass away; " and the prophet, that "the heaven shall perish as smoke, and the earth shall grow old as a garment; " 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 …
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
And see what followeth: "Thou shalt send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be made." Thou shalt take away their spirit, and send forth Thine own: Thou shalt take away their spirit: they shall have no spirit of their own. Are they then forsaken? "Blessed are the poor in spirit:" but they are not forsaken. They refused to have a spirit of their own: they shall have the Spirit of God. …
Jerome
You will send forth your spirit, and they shall be created. On the day of consummation. If the Spirit creates, therefore he is God: for he creates in the same way as the Father also does.
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