Seneca, Consol. ad Marciam, sub fine:—
"Cum tempus advenerit quo se mundus renovaturus extinguat ... et omni flagrante materia uno igne quicquid nunc ex disposito lucet, ardebit."
Id. Natural Quæst. iii. 28.:—
"Qua ratione inquis? Eadem qua conflagratio futura est ... Aqua et ignes terrenis dominantur. Ex his ortus et ex his interitus est," etc.
There are also the Sybilline verses (quoted by Lactantias de Ira Dei, cap. xxiii.):—
"Καί ποτε τὴν ὀργὴν θεὸν οὐκ ἔτι πραΰνοντα,
Ἀλλ' ἐξεμβρίθοντα, καὶ εξολύοντά τε γένναν
Ἀνθρώπον, ἅπασαν ὑπ' ἐμπρησμοῦ πέρθοντα."
Plato has a similar passage in his Timæus; and many others are quoted by Matthew Pole in his Synopsis Criticorum Script. Sacræ Interpretum; on 2 Pet. iii. 6. 10.; to which I beg to refer Mr. Sansom; and also to Burnet's Sacred Theory of the Earth, book iii. ch. 3.
T. H. Kersley.