19 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 pleonasm, {a} and also a metaphor either from birds that thrust a long neck out of a cage, as labouring for liberty; or else from those that earnestly look and long for some special friends coming, as Sisera’s mother, who looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, "Why is his chariot so long in coming?" Jdg_5:28.



{a} Superfluity, redundancy, excess; something superfluous or redundant. ŒD