...present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us19 ward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons 21 him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage...

...from " not " to " subjected " must be put in a parenthesis, or we must transpose : " the creation, not of its own will, but by reason of Him who subjected it, was subjected to vanity in hope," with this hope conditioned for it. 24. "By the hope "of the redemption....

...for him. — The word is used by St. Peter I. iii. 17 ; by St. Paul several tii : .e Rom. vi:;. w, " The earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sous of God ; " it is expressive of the patient expectation of faith. Auth., following Tyud., " look...

...present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be re19 Tealed to us-ward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the 20 sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him...

...visible creation has an interest, he continues (I take the translation in the Revised Version), "For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for...will, but by reason of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of...

...the translation in the Revised Version), " For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth /or the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation...will, but by reason of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of...

...Finite being generally. The earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for Bom. viii. ' 19 23 tlie revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was...will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of...

...may be found in the well-known passage contained in Kom. viii. 19 — 24. There Paul declares that "the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God ; " for the day when, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, the vile bodies * of £Eis elect shall be changed...

...together in disobedience, that he might have mercy upon all. For the earnest expectation of the creatiou waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God ; for the creation was subjected to vanity [unbelief, sin and suffering], not willingly, but by reason of him who subjected it in hope, because...

...presage of the approaching yet perhaps distant fullness of the divine time. And so it is written : '' The earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God," "till we all attain," said the Apostle, " unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."...