Romans 8:21

because Better than "that," as in some translations. St Paul justifies the "hope," by stating the fact in which it will be realized.

itself also As well as the children of God; though in other modes from theirs.

the bondage of corruption "Corruption" here (as in 1Co 15:42; 1 Corinthians 15:50,) is probably decay; physical, not moral, detriment. This, to creation, is "bondage," in that it represses and foils its fulness of peace and splendour.

the glorious liberty Lit., and better, the liberty of the glory; i.e. connected with the glory; attendant on it, involved in it. The period of that glory is to be (not only for the saints, but, in another mode, for the new heavens and earth,) a period of "liberty;" of developement in undecaying power and bliss.