Stoic Eschatology: Around 50CE, Seneca the Younger wrote “ the inhabited world… in huge conflagration it will burn and scorch and burn all mortal things… stars will clash with stars and all the feiry matter of the world… will blaze up in a common conflagration. Then the souls of the Blessed, who have partaken of immortality, when it will seem best for god to create the universe anew… will be changed again into our former elements. Happy, Marcia, is your son who knows these mysteries!” Seneca, ‘Ad Marciam de Consolatione’. Seneca the Younger Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. ...

cf Christian Eschatology, as expounded approximately 80 years later in 2Peter 3:7, 10-13 Christian Eschatology is the study of Christian beliefs concerning final events and ultimate purposes (from eskhatos, last). ...

2Peter 3:7 (NIV): "By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.

2Peter 3:10-13 (NIV): "But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

11 "Since everything will be destroyed in this way, what kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live holy and godly lives 12as you look forward to the day of God and speed its coming.That day will bring about the destruction of the heavens by fire, and the elements will melt in the heat." 13 "But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness." Categpry:Roman era books