A.T. Robertson Commentary Romans 8:21

"that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God." — Romans 8:21 (ASV)

The creation itself (αυτη η κτισις). It is the hope of creation, not of the Creator. Nature "possesses in the feeling of her unmerited suffering a sort of presentiment of her future deliverance" (Godet).