3 this first knowing, that will come in last of the days with scoffing scoffers, according to the own lusts of themselves walking,4 and saying: Where is the promise of the presence of him? from of which for the fathers feel asleep, all things thus remains from a beginning of creation.5 It escapes notice for them this being willing, that heavens were of old, and earth out of water and through water having been placed together, by the of the God word,6 by means of which things the then world by water having been deluged was destroyed;7 the but now heavens and the earth by the him word having been treasured up are, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.