“For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,”
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in the hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay. — The κτίσις (ktisis, "creation") was ὑποτάσσω (hypotassō, "subjected") to ματαιότης (mataiotēs, "futility") by God's decree (presumably through Adam's sin and its cosmic consequence). Yet this subjection carries ἐλπίς (elpis, "hope")—the creation will be freed from φθορά (phthora, "decay"). Creation's liberation is eschatologically linked to human redemption.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!