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The Christian's Groan
Commentators explain that even believers with the Holy Spirit "groan." This isn't a sign of weak faith but a natural response to the tension of living with a redeemed soul in an unredeemed body, within a fallen world. This groaning is a deep, internal longing for the final completion of our salvation and deliverance from all suffering, weakness, and sin.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 8:23
18th Century
Theologian
And not only they. Not only the creation in general.
But ourselves also. Christians.
Which have the first-fruit…
AT Robertson
On Romans 8:23
The first fruits (την απαρχην). Old and common metaphor.
Of the Spirit (του πνευματος). The genitive of ap…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 8:23
19th Century
Bishop
Nor is it only the rest of creation that groans. We Christians, too, though we possess the firstfruits of the Spirit, nevertheless inwardly groan, …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 8:22–23
19th Century
Preacher
For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the f…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 8:23
The parallel Paul has been drawing between the saints and the material creation is true in at least two respects—groaning (cf. [Reference 2 Corinth…
John Calvin
On Romans 8:23
16th Century
Theologian
And not only so, etc. There are those who think that the Apostle intended here to exalt the dignity of our future blessedness, an…
John Gill
On Romans 8:23
17th Century
Pastor
And not only they, but ourselves also
Not only they Gentiles, but we Jews likewise:
which have th…
Matthew Henry
On Romans 8:18–25
17th Century
Minister
The sufferings of the saints strike no deeper than the things of time, last no longer than the present time, are light afflictions, and only for a …