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Romans 8:21
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
ROMANS 8:21 o[ti {A} The oldest and best witnesses read o[ti (î46 A B C 33 81 614 1739 _al_). Apparently dio,ti arose accidentally by dittography, elpidioti becoming elpididioti...
Verse 21. _BECAUSE THE CREATURE_] This and the preceding verse should be thus connected: _in hope_ THAT (οτι) _the creature itself_ _also shall be delivered_. The word φθορα denotes, very frequently,...
BECAUSE - This is the ground of his hope, and this sustains him now. It is the purpose of God that deliverance shall be granted, and this supports the Christian amidst the trials to which he is subjec...
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)...
DELIVERED. set free, as in Romans 8:2. CORRUPTION. Greek. _phthora._ Here, 1Co 15:42, 1 Corinthians 15:50; Galatians 1:6; Ga
_because_ Better than "_that_," as in some translations. St Paul justifies the "hope," by stating the fact in which it will be realized. _itself also_ As well as the children of God; though in other...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
ὍΤΙ ΚΑῚ ΑΥ̓ΤῊ Ἡ ΚΤ. Not man only but the natural creation with him will be set free. ΤΗ͂Σ Δ. ΤΗ͂Σ ΦΘ. = τῆς ματαιότητος. N. the echo, but in a different sense, in 2 Peter 2:19. φθορά, in St Paul chie...
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...
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...
ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. pass. от_ ΈΛΕΥΘΕΡΌΩ (G1659) освобождать (_см._ Romans 8:2). ΦΘΟΡΆ (G5356) тление, испорченность....
BECAUSE THE CREATURE ITSELF, &C.— The _creature,_ or _creation itself,_ is all mankind, whether Christians or not. But this must be understood of mankind as well as of Christians, only so far as by an...
_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...
_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...
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. BECAUSE, [ dia (G1223) ton (G3588) hupotaxanta (G5293) ep'...
__ 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...
8:21 glory (d-20) 'Glorious liberty,' as in A.V., does not give the sense. The creature has no part in the liberty of grace; but it will have in that which glory gives....
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...
GLORIOUS LIBERTY] RV 'liberty of the glory.'...
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...
BECAUSE THE CREATURE. — The reason for the hope which survives through the degradation of nature; what creation _is to be._ BECAUSE. — Perhaps rather “that,” to be joined on to the end of the last ve...
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,...
Contents of the hope. It makes no difference in meaning, whether we read ὅτι or διότι. αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις : creation as well as man. ἡ δουλεία τῆς φθορᾶς : a system in which nothing continues in one stay,...
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...
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the (b) bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. (b) From the corruption which they are now subject to, they wi...
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...
The conujnction ὅτι (_that_, or _because_) may be made directly dependent on the words _in hope:_ “in hope _that._ ” Romans 8:21 would then state wherein the hope itself consists. But we may also take...
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...
_ 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....
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 HOPE OF CREATION_ ‘For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from...
21._Because the creation itself_, _etc. _He shows how the creation has in hope been made subject to vanity; that is, inasmuch as it shall some time be made free, according to what Isaiah testifies, an...
"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...
BECAUSE THE CREATURE ITSELF ALSO,.... The phrase in hope, which stands in our version, at the end of the preceding verse, should be placed in the beginning of this, and be read in connection with Roma...
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Ver. 21. _Because the creature itself_] See Mr Wilcox's discourse...
_For the creature was made subject to vanity_ Mankind in general, and the whole visible creation, lost their original beauty, glory, and felicity; a sad change passed on man, and his place of abode; t...
THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION; the bondage which consists in a corruptible state, with all the suffering belonging to such a state. THE GLORIOUS LIBERTY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD; literally, "the liberty of...
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...
THAT THE CREATION ITSELF ALSO SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE OF CORRUPTION INTO THE LIBERTY OF THE GLORY OF THE CHILDREN OF GOD. "THAT THE CREATION ITSELF ALSO SHALL BE DELIVERED FROM THE BONDAGE...
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 this verse be understood of the heavens and the earth, and the things therein, the meaning is, that _the creatures, _ in their kind, and according to their capacity, shall be partakers of that libe...
that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God....
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V The apostle, too, has confessed that the creation shall be free from the bondage of corruption, [so as to pass] into the liberty of the sons of God.[345] Tertullian...
Romans 8:21 because G3754 creation G2937 itself G846 also G2532 delivered G1659 (G5701) from G575 bondage G1397 corrupti
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...
‘For the creation was subjected to frustration (emptiness, vanity), not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope, that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bonda...
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...
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 8:21. THAT THE CREATION ITSELF ALSO. This view of the connection seems preferable to that of the E. V. (The Greek word means either ‘that,' or ‘because.') We thus have the purport of the hope,...
THE CREATION ITSELF (αυτη η κτισις). It is the hope of creation, not of the Creator. Nature "possesses in the feeling of her unmerited suffering a sort of presentiment of her future deliverance" (G...
Romans 8:19 The Freedom of the Regenerate Will. The plain meaning of this text is, that the whole world, conscious of its disinheritance, is crying aloud for the Spirit of adoption, which is even now...
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 8:15. _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...
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 8:1. _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...
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....
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, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit._ «No condemnation»: that is the beginning of the chapter. No...
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 8:14. _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 8:18. _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 8:19. _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...
THAT CREATION ITSELF. This _ties in_ with the promise of Isaiah 65:17; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1....
_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 8:20 When Adam sinned, the created world was also SUBJECTED TO FUTILITY. One thinks of the thorns and thistles that accompany work on the land (Genesi
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...
2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 22:3; Romans 8:19...
In hope because [ε π ε λ π ι δ ι ο τ ι], The best texts transfer these words from the preceding verse, and construe with was made subject, rendering oti that instead of because. "The creation was subj...
The creation itself shall be delivered — Destruction is not deliverance: therefore whatsoever is destroyed, or ceases to be, is not delivered at all. Will, then, any part of the creation be destroyed?...