For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man sees, why does he yet hope for?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
What Paul means is that we are not to expect everything to be given to us in this life, but we are to have hope as well. For the only thing we brought to God was our faith in the promises of what was to come, and it was in this way that we were saved. If we lose this hope, we lose the one thing which we have contributed to our salvation.
