ACC ~ Romans 8 v24

HOPE SEEN IS NOT HOPE. ORIGEN: I have already spoken in general terms about hope, but here I would add only that Paul teaches us not to expect that in the future life we shall possess any of the things which we can see here and now, for all these things will pass away. COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE ROMANS.

IN THIS HOPE WE WERE SAVED. AMBROSIASTER: By hoping for what God has promised to us in Christ, we have made ourselves worthy of deliverance. Therefore we have been set free in the hope that what is coming in the future is no different from what we believe. COMMENTARY ON PAUL’S EPISTLES.

CHRYSOSTOM: 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. HOMILIES ON ROMANS 14.

[PSEUDO-]CONSTANTIUS: Here Paul is referring to those who believe in Christ. For when he says that they have the first fruits of the Spirit, he shows that Christians have received the main gifts of the Holy Spirit and have a greater grace than all those saints who had lived before the coming of Christ. THE HOLY LETTER OF ST. PAUL TO THE ROMANS.

SEEING AND HOPING. PELAGIUS: We have not yet seen the things that we were promised, but we live in hope. What we see is not hoped for, but we own it if it belongs to us. Christians have no hope in what can be seen, for we have been promised not what is present but what is to come in the future. PELAGIUS’S COMMENTARY ON ROMANS.

NOT PRESENT, YET CERTAIN. CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA: We believe that our bodies also will overcome corruption and death. For the time being this is a hope, because it is not yet present, but it is a future certainty. EXPLANATION OF THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS.

Rom