The Pulpit Commentary on Romans 8:19-22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And, after all, these present drawbacks are but our inevitable share in the condition of imperfection under which all creation, as we see it now, is labouring. The whole world presents to us the picture of an ideal not realized, but ever yearned for.

All we can say about it is that it has pleased God to subject it for a time to vanity and the bondage of corruption, but so as to leave hope alive.

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