For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.
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Augustine of Hippo
AD 430
This is not to be understood simply as meaning that trees, vegetables, stones and the like sorrow and sigh— this is the error of the Manichaeans—nor should we think that the holy angels are subject to vanity or that they will be set free from the slavery of death, since they are immortal. Here “the creation” means the human race.
