<p class="bodytext">For we did not follow cleverly concocted fables when we made known to you the power and return<n id="1" /> of our Lord Jesus Christ;<n id="2" /> no,<n id="3" /> we were<n id="4" /> eyewitnesses of his<n id="5" /> grandeur.<n id="6" />

and saying,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Where is his promised return?<n id="2" /> For ever since<n id="3" /> our ancestors<n id="4" /> died,<n id="5" /> all things have continued as they were<n id="6" /> from the beginning of creation.&#8221;

while waiting for and hastening<n id="1" /> the coming of the day of God?<n id="2" /> Because of this day,<n id="3" /> the heavens will be burned up and<n id="4" /> dissolve, and the celestial bodies<n id="5" /> will melt away in a blaze!<n id="6" />