For the Creation fell into subjection to failure and unreality (not of its own choice, but by the will of Him who so subjected it).
For we know that the whole of Creation is groaning together in the pains of childbirth until this hour.
It is in hope that we have been saved. But an object of hope is such no longer when it is present to view; for when a man has a thing before his eyes, how can he be said to hope for it?