Vincent Word Studies - Romans 8:21 - 8:21

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Vincent Word Studies - Romans 8:21 - 8:21


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In hope because (ἐπ' ἐλπίδι ὅτι)

The best texts transfer these words from the preceding verse, and construe with was made subject, rendering ὅτι that instead of because. “The creation was subjected in the hope that,” etc. In hope is literally on hope, as a foundation. The hope is that of the subjected, not of the subjector. Nature “possesses in the feeling of her unmerited suffering, a sort of presentiment of her future deliverance” (Godet). Some adopt a very suggestive connection of in hope with waiteth for the manifestation.

Glorious liberty (ἐλευθερίαν τῆς δόξης)

Better, and more literally, as Rev., liberty of the glory. Liberty is one of the elements of the glorious state and is dependent upon it. The glory is that in Rom 8:18. The Greek student will note the accumulation of genitives, giving solemnity to the passage.