As for the statement, "And there shall be no more sea," I would not lightly say whether it is dried up with that excessive heat, or is itself also turned into some better thing...For then there shall be no more of this world, no more of the surgings and restlessness of human life, and it is this which is symbolized by the sea.
Quod autem ait: "Et mare iam non est:" utrum maximo illo ardore siccetur an et ipsum vertatur in melius, non facile dixerim....Iam enim tunc non erit hoc saeculum vita mortalium turbulentum et procellosum, quod maris nomine figuravit.
-- St. Augustine, City of God, 20.16
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