But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
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Ambrosiaster
AD 400
Patience is greatly approved of by God, for by daily waiting it desires the coming of the kingdom of God and does not doubt just because it delays. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.
Patience trains up the longing. Wait, for he waits. Walk on steadfastly that you may reach the end. He will not leave that place to which you are moving.
The certainty of our hope is prefigured by the egg. No offspring is as yet discernible in the egg, but the birth of the bird to come is hoped for. The faithful do not yet look upon the glory of the fatherland on high in which they believe at the present time, but they await its coming in hope.
Hope is feeling confidence in things to come…. The name of patience belongs to hard work and to much endurance. But even this he grants to the one who hopes in order to comfort the weary soul.
