...WHY MANKIND WAS "SUBJECTED TO VANITY." •Rom. 8:20. For the creation [all mankind, says M'Knight] was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of Him who hath subjected it, in hope that the creation itself, [all mankind], also shall be delivered from the...

...in love," — such faith is man's vital experience in contact with the vital fact of the universe. "The earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God ; " and " he that hath received the witness hath set his seal to this, that God is true." O, happy...

...is death, but to be spiritually minded is life," did he not also write immediately afterwards that " the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God " ? And again, did he not even say of those " who hold down the truth in unrighteousness," that the...

...conceives of the entire creation as groaning and travailing in pain, because of man's alienation. " For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God." And he speaks also of " the hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage...

...delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Revised Version For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its...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...

...man alone, but the whole creation also, because of sin, has come under a " bondage of corruption. " " The creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it. ... For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." This is...

...make natural man in his progress ever wiser than his creed." This gives expression to one form of " the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the Sons of God " — Rom. viii. 19, RV — the fulfilment of its predictions, which, when fulfilled, will find its...

...the mystic words of Scripture, " The whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together . . . The earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God." We ourselves are but strangers and pilgrims upon earth, and we may learn, both in the so-called darkness...

...research helps us to understand the words of St. Paul in which he tells us that the earnest expeetation of the Creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. . . . For we know that the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now : words which distinctly...

...the modern translations render it creation. Thus, " For the creation •was brought into subjection to vanity not of its own will, but by reason of him who put it into subjection, in hope that even the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of...