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and say, “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the Fathers died, all things continue just as from the beginning of the creation.”

For of this they are willingly ignorant: that the heavens were of old; and the earth - which was of the water and by the water - by the word of God;

through which water the world that then existed perished, being flooded.

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They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised?(A) Ever since our ancestors died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”(B) But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word(C) the heavens came into being and the earth was formed out of water and by water.(D) By these waters also the world of that time(E) was deluged and destroyed.(F)

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