“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.”
We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. — The στενάζω (stenazō, "groan") of the κτίσις (ktisis, "creation")—likened to ὠδῖν τέκνον (ōdīn teknon, "birth pangs")—witnesses to the world's travail. This is not death's finality but labor; eschatological transformation is imminent. The groaning is productive suffering.
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