זה שקראו וכו'. א"א נראה כמכחיש שאין העולם חוזר לתהו ובהו והקב"ה מחדש עולמו ואמרו שיתא אלפי שנין הוי עלמא וחד חרוב ונמצא שהוא עולם חדש: As for the reason why the sages called it etc. It appears that he denies that the world will again be without form and void, and that the Holy One, blessed is He! will renew His world, as the sages have said: (Sanhedrin 97a.) Six thousand years will this world last, and one thousand years it will be desolate, as a consequence the world after that is a new one.* It is strange, indeed, that those who criticised Maimonides should have given so little of their thought to his text. What if this world will be desolate a thousand years, and a new one created, would that alter the life after death of which he speaks? C. G.