Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Verse 22. _THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH_] If it be inquired how the Gentile world groaned and travailed in pain; let them who explain this of the fabric of the material world, tell us ho...
FOR WE KNOW - The sentiment of this verse is designed as an illustration of what had just been said. THAT THE WHOLE CREATION - Margin, “every creature.” This expression has been commonly understood as...
CHAPTER 8 _ 1. In Christ; no Condemnation but Deliverance. (Romans 8:1 .)_ 2. Flesh and Spirit. (Romans 8:5 .) 3. The Body and the Spirit. (Romans 8:9 .) 4. Sons and Heirs of God. ...
THE BIRTH-PANGS OF IMMORTALITY. Romans 8:18. These present sufferings are light beyond comparison, in view of the glory awaiting us at the coming revelation. The destined glory is hidden under a flesh...
For I am convinced that the sufferings of this present age cannot be compared with the glory which is destined to be disclosed to us. The created world awaits with eager expectation the day when those...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
GROANETH. is groaning together. Greek. _sustenazo_. Only here. TRAVAILETH... TOGETHER. travails together. Greek. _sunodino._ Only here....
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_we know_ By observation of the pain and disturbance everywhere in the material world. _travaileth in pain_ A powerful and expressive word, indicating both great present distress and the _definite re...
The interpretation of the character and obligations of human life, under the power of the indwelling Spirit, in relation to creation and to GOD. (12) If then all this is true, that our spirit in its w...
In the preceding verses the thoughts worked out in 2 Cor. _l.c_[161] have been summarised. In these verses the Apostle includes a wider range of thought, characteristic of Eph. and Col. Man’s present...
ΟἼΔΑΜΕΝ. The appeal to common experience. ΣΥΝΣΤ. ΚΑῚ ΣΥΝΩΔ. ΣΥΝ. not with man, but throughout all its parts, members and organisms. The cpds only here; for ὠδίν. cf Matthew 24:8; the thought is of th...
ΣΥΣΤΕΝΆΖΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΣΤΕΝΆΖΩ (G4959) стенать вместе, возможно, имеется в виду непроизвольная молитва (ВВС), ΣΥΝΩΔΊΝΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΣΥΝΩΔΊΝΩ (G4944) страдать от родовых мук вмес...
_ROMANS 8:19_.— I must think, that it was quite to the Apostle's purpose in this place to point at the common calamities of mankind. Christians ought not to be uneasy if they are exposed to sufferings...
THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH— How David _groaned_ under the vanity of this life, may be seen Psalms 89:47 which complaint may be met with in some sense and in some degree in every man's mouth: so that...
_TEXT_ Romans 8:18-25. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us-ward. Romans 8:19 For the earnest expectation of...
__ Conciliation-Individual 11 Mortal bodies are such as are dying, in a physical sense. Their vivification cannot refer to the future resurrection, but to the present power of God's Spirit to use an...
8:22 creation (e-7) 'Creation' is the same in Greek as 'creature' in vers. 19-21; but the Greek for 'whole' gives it a concrete and not an abstract character, i.e. 'creation.'...
THE NEW LIFE IN CHEIST IN RELATION TO GOD AND THE SPIRIT It was shown in Romans 5:12. that condemnation for the _guilt_ of sin is done away by justification through faith in Christ. The question as to...
PAUL’S LETTER TO THE *ROMANS ROMANS _HILDA BRIGHT AND KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 THE *HOLY SPIRIT AND GOD’S CHILDREN 8:1-39 FREEDOM FROM *SINFUL NATURE 8:1-4 V1 Therefore the people who belong to...
(18-25) The mention of “suffering” and of “glory” recalls the Apostle to a sense of his own position — what he had to go through, and what was the hope that he had to animate and encourage him. A vivi...
GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH. — In view of the physical evil and misery prevalent in the world, the Apostle attributes a human consciousness of pain to the rest of creation. It groans and travails _togethe...
CHAPTER 18 HOLINESS BY THE SPIRIT, AND THE GLORIES THAT SHALL FOLLOW Romans 8:12 Now the Apostle goes on to develop these noble premisses into conclusions. How true to himself, and to his Inspirer,...
οἴδαμεν γὰρ κ. τ. λ.: How Christians know this Paul does not say. Perhaps we may say that the Christian consciousness of sin and redemption is in contact with the ultimate realities of the universe, a...
HOPING FOR THE COMPLETED REDEMPTION Romans 8:18 Creation groans for freedom from the serpent's trail. Like a captive maiden she sighs to be delivered from the curse which sin has brought upon her. Th...
The opening sentences of this chapter show a remarkable contrast with the previous chapter. From the fearful sense of condemnation we pass into the consciousness of no condemnation. Having shown the n...
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and (c) travaileth in pain together until now. (c) By this word is meant not only exceeding sorrow, but also the fruit that follows from it....
NINETEENTH PASSAGE (ROMANS 8:18-30). COMPLETION OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION, NOTWITHSTANDING THE MISERIES OF OUR PRESENT CONDITION. In speaking of the full victory gained by the Spirit of Christ over the...
The hope expressed in Romans 8:21 is _justified_ in Romans 8:22. By the word _we know_, Paul appeals, not as Ewald supposes, to an old book that has been lost, but to a book always open to those who h...
_ On the passage Romans 8:18-22_. In following the exposition of the work of salvation, the apostle touches a domain, that, namely, of _nature_, where he comes into contact with the labors of science....
THIRD SECTION (8:1-39). THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER. At the close of the preceding section, the apostle had contrasted the _oldness of letter_, a term by which he denotes the...
For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. (19) For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manif...
The circumstances under which the epistle to the Romans was written gave occasion to the most thorough and comprehensive unfolding, not of the church, but of Christianity. No apostle had ever yet visi...
_THE SACRING OF PAIN_ ‘The whole creation … travaileth in pain.’ Romans 8:22 It is held that pain came in with sin; and will go out with sin. This, however, is to be taken with certain reservations...
_CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE_ ‘For we know.’ Romans 8:22 St. Paul was no mean man. If ever a strong man lived, that man was St. Paul. And, more than that, he was a man who had sacrificed a great deal for w...
22._For we know_, _etc. _He repeats the same sentiment, that he might pass over to us, though what is now said has the effect and the form of a conclusion; for as creatures are subject to corruption,...
"There is therefore now no condemnation to those which are in Christ Jesus" (Chapter 8). He does not here speak of the efficacy of the blood in putting away sins (all-essential as that blood is, and t...
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH,.... As a woman with child, ready to bring forth: for it is added, AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW; regeneration is owing to the grace of God, w...
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. Ver. 22. _The whole creation groaneth_] Even the very heavens are not without their feebleness and the manifest...
_For we know that the whole creation_ Ever since the first apostacy of our nature from God; _groaneth_ Suffers a variety of miseries; _and travaileth_ Συνωδινει, literally, _is in the pains of childbi...
THE WHOLE CREATION; every part of creation which, without its own choice, has been subjected to evils, or is perverted and abused through the sins of men. GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN; experienceth...
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW. In v. 18 the apostle briefly states the topic of the second part of this chapter: For I consider; he gives it as...
COMFORT IN THE MANIFOLD AFFLICTIONS OF THIS LIFE. The sighing of creation:...
DELIVERANCE SIMPLY BY GOD'S TRUTH We come now, in the first four verses here, to the deliverance itself. Is this to be by means of experience? A mere glance at the verses will show us it is decidedly...
Expectation - What do you expect? Creature - humanity, people of the earth, creation Wait - patience is waiting 20 All creation - animals and man Frustrated - not by our choice By the will of God...
THE WHOLE CREATION: Or, every creature...
FOR WE KNOW THAT THE WHOLE CREATION GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN TOGETHER UNTIL NOW. "WE KNOW" -everything which we see, every creature which lives, is thus subjected to. state of servitude, pain,...
18-25 The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and but for a moment. How vastly different are the sentence o...
If here again the heavens and the earth, with what is therein, be understood, then the apostle further enlargeth upon their present state and condition; before they waited and expected deliverance, no...
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. [And creation thus waits; for at and by reason of the fall of man, it became subject to frailty; i. e., it also...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Fourth " "Those," he said, "which are budding are the righteous who are to live in the world to come; for the coming world is the summer[1] Theophilus to Autolycus Book...
Romans 8:22 For G1063 know G1492 (G5758) that G3754 whole G3956 creation G2937 groans G4959 (G5719) and...
‘For we know that the whole creation groans together and suffers birthpangs together until now.' Thus just as Christians are groaning within themselves over their temporary enslavement by sin which is...
THE WHOLE OF CREATION IS GROANING IN EXPECTATION OF ITS REDEMPTION. AND GOD'S PEOPLE ALSO GROAN WITH IT, AS DOES THE SPIRIT OF GOD HIMSELF ON OUR BEHALF (8:18-27). In spite of the division necessarily...
3. _THE LIFE IN THE SPIRIT OVER AGAINST THE FAILURE OF THE LAW; THE GOSPEL AS THE POWER OF GOD UNTO PRESENT SALVATION FROM SIN_ . This chapter is ‘the climax of the Epistle' (Tholuck). The gospel is a...
Romans 8:22. FOR WE KNOW. Here, as in chaps. Romans 2:2; Romans 3:19; Romans 7:14, and...
2. GROUNDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ATTESTING THE BELIEVER'S SECURITY. The life in the Spirit involves fellowship with Christ in suffering and glory (Romans 8:17). The sufferings are present, while the glory...
GROANETH AND TRAVAILETH IN PAIN (συνστεναζε κα συνωδινε). Two more compounds with συν. Both rare and both here alone in N.T. Nature is pictured in the pangs of childbirth....
Romans 8:18 The Groans of Creation. I. In trying to understand the several voices which make up this chorus of expectation, we must commence with the dumb companion of our hope, the physical creatio...
Romans 8:19 I. The groaning creation. We are surrounded by the evidences of a conflicting existence, a state of being not all evil, certainly; certainly not all of God. All things about us show the wr...
Romans 8:22 Groans of Unrenewed and Renewed Nature. I. All things bear about them strange tokens of good and evil. Each pictures to us some part of the glory of their Maker, each of our vanity. They...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Not those who say they are «the sons of God,» but those who undoubtedly prove that they are, by being led, influe...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
The words we are about to read follow a passage in which the Apostle describes the conflict of his soul. It is rather singular that it should be so. To catch the contrast, let us just begin at the en...
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,_ Observe that Paul writes «There is therefore,» for he is stating a truth which is founded upon solid argument....
Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ To my mind one of the sweetest words of that verse is that...
This precious chapter reminds us of the description of the land of Havilah, «where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good.» Romans 8:1. _There is therefore now no condemnation to them which...
Romans 8:15. _For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;_ You did receive it once. You needed it. You were in sin, and it was well for you when sin became bondage to you. It was gr...
Romans 8:18. _For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us._ Paul made «the sufferings of this present time» into a...
Romans 8:14. _For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
Romans 8:19. _For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ The whole creation is in a waiting posture, waiting for the glory yet to be revealed. Rom...
CONTENTS: The new law of the Holy Spirit in the believer, giving deliverance from sinful nature. The full result of the Gospel in the believer and his security. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, P...
The first four verses of this chapter belong to the preseding one, and deduce the just conclusions therefrom, that the state of fallen man is a state of condemnation and legal bondage that he cannot e...
ALL OF CREATION GROANS WITH PAIN. These groans of pain are a prophecy of the time of future freedom!...
_For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God._ THE EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE The Greek for “expectation” is one of those admirable words which that...
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:22 Again CREATION is personified (see v. Romans 8:19). It longs for the day when salvation will be completed....
ROMANS—NOTE ON ROMANS 8:18 Paul began this major section of the letter (Romans 5:1) by emphasizing the final hope of believers (Rom
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Romans 8:19. EXPECTATION.—In the original a highly figurative word. Hope stands with head erect, and with eyes fixed towards the point from which the blessing is expected to come. WAI...
EXPOSITION ROMANS 8:1 (_c_) _The blessed condition and assured hope of such as are in Christ _Jesus. The summary of the contents of this chapter, which follows the Exposition, may be referred to in...
Let's turn to the eighth chapter of Romans. Fasten your seatbelts as we take off. In the seventh chapter of the book of Romans, Paul has come to the realization that the law is spiritual. While he was...
Colossians 1:23; Jeremiah 12:11; John 16:21; Mark 16:15; Psalms 48:6;
For. Introducing the proof of the hope, not of the bondage. Groaneth - travaileth together [σ υ σ τ ε ν α ζ ε ι - σ υ ν ω δ ι ν ε ι]. Both only here in the New Testament. The simple verb wjdinw to tra...
For the whole creation groaneth together — With joint groans, as it were with one voice. And travaileth — Literally, is in the pains of childbirth, to be delivered of the burden of the curse. Until no...