Romans 8:24 (WEB)
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
Catechism · 1
“For in this hope we were saved."” — Catechism footnote: Rom 8:22-24.
Fathers and councils · 38
Gregory of Nyssa
““For what a man hath,” says the Apostle, “why doth he yet hope for”?” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
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Augustine of Hippo
“For by hope we are saved; and through patience we await Thy promises.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But as yet “by faith, not by sight,” for “we are saved by hope; but hope that is seen is not hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Whence we have in this pilgrimage received “an earnest” that we should now be light, whilst as yet we “are saved by hope,” and are the children of light, and the children of the day,—not the children of the night nor of the darkness, which yet we have been.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Unless perhaps his former prayer marks the invocation itself: but being in darkness amidst the storms of this world, he perceives that he does not see what he desires, and yet does not cease to hope, “For hope that is seen, is not hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“In the mean while dwell in hope: for “hope that is seen is not hope; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment““For by hope we are saved: but hope which is seen, is not hope.”…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment““For by hope we have been saved: but if that which we see not we hope for, through patience we wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“Now then thou groanest, now unto a place of refuge thou runnest, in order that thou mayest be saved; now being in infirmity thou entreatest the Physician: what,…” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But we are being led home in hope, “For by hope we are saved.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“…awaiting the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body; for we are saved by hope; and if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“For it is truly said, “I was in misery, and He delivered me;” but the Apostle saith this also truly, that we are saved by hope.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“While “we await the redemption of our body, we are saved by hope, and hoping for that we see not, we await with patience.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25.
Read the whole comment““For we are saved in hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: but if what we see not we hope for, then do we with patience wait for it: “the salvation,” that is, which Peter calleth “ready to be revealed in the last time.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For if what we see not, we hope for, by patience we wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“Since it is of the body’s redemption which is to be in the end, that the Apostle speaks, where he says, “Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting the adoption of sons, the redemption of our body.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 23–25
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it,” viz. “as long as the King sitteth at His table.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25
Read the whole comment“…some future time it will take place: and this is the hope which is not seen, of which the apostle, when speaking, said, “But hope which is seen is not hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“Now in this world, holy, good, reconciled, saved, or rather to be saved, and now saved in hope, “for we are saved in hope;” in this world, I say, that is in the Church which wholly follows Christ, He hath said as of universal application, “Whosoever will follow Me, let him deny himself.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“It is an egg, and not as yet the chicken.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“For, to use his words again,” We are saved by hope.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“But if we hope for those things we see [not], we then by patience wait for them.’” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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John Chrysostom
“And adds, “let us hold it firm unto the end.” ( Rom. viii. 24.)” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“Why then hasten and hurry thyself? and why seek thy rewards here, thou who art “saved by hope?”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24. [“Saved in hope” or “for hope” expresses better, and agrees with the argument in the Homily.—R.]
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Cyprian of Carthage
“But if we hope for that which we see not, then do we by patience wait for it.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
Read the whole comment“But if we hope for what we see not, we hope for it in patience.”” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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Aphrahat
“And the Apostle said, Hope which is seen is not hope.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
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Leo the Great
“…temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal,” the path of virtue lies hid and in concealment, to a certain extent, since “by hope we were saved,” and true faith loves that above all things, which it attains to without any intervention of the flesh.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
Read the whole comment“For although “by hope we were saved,” and still bear about with us a flesh that is corruptible and mortal, yet we are rightly said not to be in the flesh, if the fleshly affections do not dominate us, and are justified in ceasing to be named after that, the will of which we do not follow.” — editor's note: Rom. viii. 24.
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Tertullian
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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Cross-references · 29
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71 and 1 other place.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 8.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in Confessions XI.9.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 49.
Cited together in The City of God XV.18.
Cited together in The City of God XIX.4.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 71.
Cited together in On Patience Chapter 7.