## The earth and the heaven fled away from his presence, but there was no place for them to go ##

John describes heaven and earth as a person who is trying to escape God's judgment. This means the presence of God completely destroyed the old heaven and earth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])

## the mighty and the unimportant ##

John combines these words to mean all of the dead people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])

## the books were opened ##

AT: "and the books were open" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])