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19. γὰρ introduces the expression of the wide range of the future revelation.
ἀποκαραδοκία. Php 1:20 only, Lft. The subst. seems not to be found elsewhere = concentrated expectation (cf. ἀποβλέπειν).
τῆς κτίσεως. Of the physical creation, cf. Giff. The renovation of nature was part of the Jewish Messianic hope. It is essentially the hope of the restoration of the state of nature before the Fall, when the earth was cursed for man’s transgression. Cf. S. H. p. 210, ref. Isa 65:17-25, Enoch 45:4, Schürer E.T. II. 2, p. 172 f. The remarkable, and perhaps unique, feature here is the suggestion of an almost conscious participation of nature in the ‘larger hope’; and the interpretation in this sense of its movements and strife and waste. If we are right in understanding the passage so, it is an anticipation of a very modern kind of sympathy. cf. Edersheim, 2. p. 441; Stanton, J. and Chr. Mess., 310 f., 350 f.
τὴν ἀποκάλυψιν τ. ὑ. τ. θ. Cf. Luk 2:32; Luk 2:35; 2Th 2:3 f. only, of persons other than divine. It is the climax of the φανέρωσις described in 2Co 4:11; 2Co 3:18, when the veil shall be removed, all the disturbing influences of earthly conditions and judgments, and the true sons of GOD stand out in their true light. That manifestation will bring the ‘new heavens and the new earth,’ to which all the strife and movements of nature tend.