Romans 8:22

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For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

The moon toils for you and by reason of the will of God is made subject…. It is you who undergo changes of your own volition, not the moon. The moon groans and travails in pain in its changes. You without understanding often find joy in this. The moon frequently awaits your release from sin, so that it may be released from the servitude in which all creation shares. But you place obstacles in the way of your release from sin and to the moon’s freedom. The fact that you yourself still await that conversion which fails to come, whereas the moon suffers change, is the result not of the moon’s folly but of yours. .

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Ambrosiaster

AD 400

To groan in travail is to grieve…. The elements themselves show forth their works with care, for both the sun and the moon fill the spaces allotted to them not without travail, and the spirit of the animals demonstrates its servitude by loud groanings. All these are waiting for rest and to be set free from their servile labor. Now if this service were of any benefit to God the creation would be rejoicing, not grieving. But every day it watches its labor disappear. Every day its work appears and vanishes. Therefore it is right to grieve, because its work leads not to eternity but to corruption. Commentary on Paul’s Epistles.

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Augustine of Hippo

AD 430

Every creature is represented in man, not because all the angels … are in him, nor the heaven, earth, sea and all that is in them, but because the human creature is partly spirit, partly soul and partly body.

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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.

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John Chrysostom

AD 407

Paul says this in order to shame his hearers. He is virtually saying: “Do not be worse than the creation, and do not derive pleasure from the things of this life. Not only should we not cling to them; we should be groaning at the slowness of our departure from this world. For if this is how the creation behaves, you ought to do so all the more, seeing as you have the gift of reason.”

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Shepherd of Hermas

AD 150

""Those "he said, "which are budding are the righteous who are to live in the world to come; for the coming world is the summer

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Theophilus of Antioch

AD 184

], not as if they had been made evil or venomous from the first-for nothing was made evil by God,

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