All of creation waits. Chrysostom says: "Paul personifies the world, just as the prophets do when they make the floods to clap their hands." The total created universe looks forward to that time when God's children will have reached their climax and be revealed in all their glory! Compare Colossians 1:20.
Verse 19. _FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE_] There is considerable difficulty in this and the four following verses: and the difficulty lies chiefly in the meaning of the word ἡ κτισις,...
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION - ἀποκαραδοκία apokaradokia. This word occurs only here and in Philippians 1:20, “According to my earnest expectation and my hope,” etc. It properly denotes a state of ea...
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...
THE LIBERATION OF OUR HUMAN NATURE (Romans 8:1-4)...
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...
EARNEST EXPECTATION. anxious looking with outstretched head. Greek. _apokaradokia._ Only here and Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:20. CREATURE. creation. WAITETH FOR. Greek. _apekdechomai._ Occurs her...
Security of the Justified: the Holy Spirit's aid given to them: Eternal Glory prepared for them: the Divine purpose leads them thither...
_For the earnest expectation_, &c. The connexion of thought is: "A glory is to be revealed for us, the children of God; and so real and momentous is that glory, and its revelation, that it is intently...
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...
ΓᾺΡ introduces the expression of the wide range of the future revelation. ἈΠΟΚΑΡΑΔΟΚΊΑ. Philippians 1:20 only, Lft. The subst. seems not to be found elsewhere = concentrated expectation (cf. ἀποβλέπε...
ΆΠΟΚΑΡΑΔΟΚΊΑ (G36) наблюдающий пристально, страстно ждущий, выражает доверие, надежду и радостное упование (BAGD; D.R.Denton, "ΆΠΟΚΑΡΑΔΟΚΊΑ" ZNW 73 [19821: 138-40). Значение усиливается предложным соч...
_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...
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. FOR ... 'The apostle (says Hodge), fired at the thought of the future glory of the saints. pours forth...
__ 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...
8:19 anxious (c-3) Or 'constant,' as Philippians 1:20 ....
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...
MANIFESTATION] RV 'revealing': cp. 1 Corinthians 15:51.; 1 Thessalonians 4:16.;...
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...
Nor is ours a merely isolated hope; we have our place — “Mid onward sloping motions infinite, Making for one sure goal.” The whole creation is looking earnestly and intently for the same manifestati...
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,...
First testimony to this glorious future: creation sighs for it. In some sense the hope and promise of it is involved in the present constitution of the world. For a fine speculative interpretation see...
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...
(21) For the earnest expectation of the (u) creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. (21) Fourthly, he plainly teaches us that we will certainly be renewed from that confusion and h...
The expectation [2] of the creature. He speaks of the corporal creation, made for the use and service of man; and, by occasion of his sin made subject to vanity, that is, to a perpetual instability, t...
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....
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...
VV. 19 begins the development of this general state of misery and waiting in which the church still participates, and which was denoted by the term: _the sufferings of this present time_ (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. (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 WAITING CHURCH_ ‘The earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.’ Romans 8:19 What is it that this passage teaches? I. IT TEACHES THAT THE CREATURE,...
_SUFFERINGS AND GLORY_ ‘I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.’ Romans 8:18 ‘I reckon,’ spoken by one who knew...
19_For the intent expectation of the creation_, _etc. _He teaches us that there is an example of the patience, to which he had exhorted us, even in mute creatures. For, to omit various interpretations...
"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 THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE,.... Some by the creature understand the universe, all created beings animate and inanimate, which having suffered much by the sin of man, are introduced by...
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. Ver. 19. _For the earnest expectation_] Gr. "The intent expectation of the creature expecteth:" a Hebrew...
_For the earnest expectation_, &c. “This and the following verses,” says Dr. Doddridge, “have been generally, and not without reason, accounted as difficult as any part of this epistle. This difficult...
THE CREATURE; the creation. In this and the three following verses the word rendered creature and creation is the same in the original Greek. It seems to denote the whole of this lower creation as bro...
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATURE WAITETH FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF THE SONS OF GOD....
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...
FOR THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF THE CREATION WAITETH FOR THE REVEALING OF THE SONS OF GOD. "EARNEST EXPECTATION" -'anxious longing' (NASV). This phrase is made up of three Greek words, and speaks of on...
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...
The apostle Peter, speaking of the Epistles of our apostle, in 2 PETER 3:16, saith, that there are _some things_ in them _hard to be understood; _ and some think, by reflecting upon some particular pa...
For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. [Though the life in the spirit may involve us in sufferings, yet we are encouraged to bear them; for the suffe...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V For the creature has been subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope; since the creature itself shall also be delive...
Romans 8:19 For G1063 expectation G603 creation G2937 waits G553 (G5736) revealing G602 sons G5207 God G2316...
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 earnest expectation of the creation waits for the revealing of the sons of God.' Paul vividly presents the whole of creation as waiting, as it were, with bated breath, for the time when the s...
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 8:19. FOR THE PATIENT EXPECTATION. The idea is not of anxiety, but of a constant and persistent awaiting; the word translated ‘patient expectation' being derived from one which means ‘to expect...
THE EARNEST EXPECTATION OF CREATION (η αποκαραδοκια της κτισεως). This substantive has so far been found nowhere save here and Philippians 1:20, though the verb αποκαραδοκεω is common in Polybius an...
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 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 8:19 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 8:14. _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...
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._ Leading implies following; and those who are enabled to follow the guidance of the Divine Spirit are most assured...
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 8:19. _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...
_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 8:18 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...
1 John 3:2; 2 Peter 3:11; Acts 3:21; Isaiah 65:17; Malachi 3:17;...
Earnest expectation [α π ο κ α ρ α δ ο κ ι α]. Only here and Philippians 1:20. From ajpo away kara the head, dokein to watch. A watching with the head erect or outstretched. Hence a waiting in suspens...
For the earnest expectation — The word denotes a lively hope of something drawing near, and a vehement longing after it. Of the creation — Of all visible creatures, believers excepted, who are spoken...
Observe here, 1. That there is. time indeed a-coming, when all the sons of God, all his adopted children, shall be made manifest: How manifest? 1. In their persons: It shall then appear who are God'...