for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins.

For if, after escaping the world's corruptions through a full knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus, the Messiah, they are again entangled and conquered by those corruptions, then their last condition is worse than their former one.

For they willingly forget [the fact] that the heavens existed long ago by the word of God, and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

whence the former world was destroyed by an inundation.