Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 51:6

6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the Heavens shall vanish away like smoak, and the earth shall wax old like a Garment , and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner : but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

The Heavens and Earth shall pass away, either 1. Simply, and by a substantial corruption or annihilation, which yet is to be understood comparatively or conditionally, that these should sooner vanish into nothing, than Gods promise of Salvation should not be accomplished: as when it is said, Heaven and Earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away, Mat. 24. 35. It is thus expounded▪ It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass, than (for) one tittle of the Law to fail. Or 2. In regard of their present State, and Properties, and Use, as Smoak is here said to vanish, although the substance of it be not destroyed.

As they shall be dissolved, as we read, 2 Pet. 3. 11. and death is nothing else but a dissolution.

Marginal references: Ps. 102. 26. Mat. 24. 35.; Or, as a [illegible: 1 word].