But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
Ver. 10. The heavens shall pass, &c.] The very visible heavens are defiled with men's sins, Revelation 18:5, and must therefore be purged by fire; as the vessel that held the sin offering was in the time of the law.
With a great noise] ροιζηδον, such a noise as the sea makes in a great storm, or like the hissing of parchment shrivelled up with heat, as others make the comparison.
Shall be burnt up] This the very heathens knew in part, as appears by the writings of Lucretius, Cicero do Natura Deorum, Ovid's Metam. lib. i.