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Romans 8:21

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that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Catechism · 6

"I Believe in Life Everlasting"

  • §1046Article 12 · "I Believe in Life Everlasting"Read at vatican.va

    “We know that the whole creation has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:19-23.

Man's Freedom

  • §1741Article 3 · Man's FreedomRead at vatican.va

    “Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:21.

In the Old Testament

  • §2572Article 1 · In the Old TestamentRead at vatican.va

    “Prayer restores man to God's likeness and enables him to share in the power of God's love that saves the multitude.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rom 8:16-21.

The Creator

  • §280Paragraph 4 · The CreatorRead at vatican.va

    “Conversely, the mystery of Christ casts conclusive light on the mystery of creation and reveals the end for which "in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth": from the beginning, God envisaged the glory of the new creation in Christ.” — Catechism footnote: Gen 1:1; cf. Rom 8:18-23.

The Fall

  • §400Paragraph 7 · The FallRead at vatican.va

    “Because of man, creation is now subject "to its bondage to decay".” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:21.

"From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"

  • §671Article 7 · "From Thence He Will Come Agaln to Judge the Living and the Dead"Read at vatican.va

    “…of this world which will pass, and she herself takes her place among the creatures which groan and travail yet and await the revelation of the sons of God."” — Catechism footnote: LG 48 # 3; cf. 2 Pt 3:13; Rom 8:19-22; I Cor 15:28.

Fathers and councils · 22

Origen

  • Origen, Against Celsus V.13Book V

    “Now, with regard to these, we acknowledge that they too are “waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God,” being for the present subjected to the “vanity” of their material bodies, “by reason of Him who has subjected the same in hope.”” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. viii. 19–21.

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  • Origen, Against Celsus VII.65Book VII

    “…for the revelation of the sons of God;” and “the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who made it subject, in hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 19–21.

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  • Origen, De Principiis I.7Book I

    “The following is the statement of the Apostle Paul: “The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who subjected the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. viii. 20, 21.

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  • Origen, De Principiis II.9Book II

    “…according to the words of the apostle: “For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 20, 21.

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  • Origen, De Principiis III.6Book III

    “…the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God,” manifestly announces the end of the world; as he does also when he again says, “The fashion of this world passeth away.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 20, 21.

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  • Origen, De Principiis III.7Book III

    “And with reference to this, it is made a question by some whether the nature of bodily matter, although cleansed and purified, and rendered altogether spiritual, does not seem either to offer an obstruction towards…” — editor's note: Jerome, in his Epistle to Avitus, No. 94, has the passage thus: “Since, as we have already frequently observed, the beginning is generated again from the end,…

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Gregory of Nyssa

  • Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius III.1Book III

    “For that all the creation is in bondage the great Paul declares,— he who in the schools above the heavens was instructed in that knowledge which may not be spoken, learning these things in that place where every voice that…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 21.

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  • Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius IV.3Book IV

    “…is joy among the angels over those who are rescued from sin, (because until now that creation groaneth and travaileth in pain at the vanity that affects us, judging our perdition to be their own loss,) when that manifestation of the sons of God takes place which they look for and expect, and when the sheep is…” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. viii. 19–23.

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  • Gregory of Nyssa, Against Eunomius V.4Book V

    “For if, according to Paul, the whole creation “is in bondage,” and if, according to Eunomius, the essential nature of the Only-begotten is created, our adversaries maintain, surely, by their doctrines, not that the master was mingled with the servant, but that a servant came to be among servants.” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. viii. 21.

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  • Gregory of Nyssa, On the Faith

    “For all creation, as the Apostle says, is in servitude.” — editor's note: Cf. Rom. viii. 21. This clause is omitted in the Paris editions.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

Tertullian

  • Tertullian, Against Hermogenes Chapter 11

    “…and his angels”—having been first “cast into the bottomless pit;” when likewise “the manifestation of the children of God” shall have “delivered the creature” from evil, which had been “made subject to vanity;” when the cattle restored in the innocence and integrity of their nature shall be at peace with the beasts…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 21.

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  • Tertullian, The Five Books Against Marcion V.13Book V

    Chapter XIV.—The Divine Power Shown in Christ’s Incarnation. Meaning of St. Paul’s Phrase. Likeness of Sinful Flesh. No Docetism in It. Resurrection of Our Real Bodies. A Wide Chasm Made in the Epistle by Marcion’s…

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Athanasius of Alexandria

  • Athanasius of Alexandria, Against the Arians II.6Discourse II

    “…for the manifestation of the sons of God, shall be delivered’ one time ‘from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 19, 21. Thus there are two senses in which our Lord is ‘first-born to the creation;’ viz. in its first origin, and in its restoration after man’s…

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Ambrose of Milan

John Chrysostom

Jerome

  • Jerome, Letters Letter 124

    “This, he argues, is the view of the apostle who writes:—“the creation has been subjected to vanity and shall be delivered for the revealing of the sons of God.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 19–21, R.V.

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Augustine of Hippo

Hilary of Poitiers

Hippolytus of Rome

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