For the earnest expectation of the creation waits for the manifestation of the sons of God.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
But this would be in accordance with what has been written, he says: "And the creation itself groaneth together, and travaileth in pain together, waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God.".
When, therefore, he says, the entire Son ship shall have come, and shall be above the conterminous spirit, then the creature will become the object of mercy. For (the creature) groans until now,
