Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
For the creature—"the creation."
was made subject to vanity, not willingly—that is, through no natural principle of decay. The apostle, personifying creation, represents it as only submitting to the vanity with which it was smitten, on man's account, in obedience to that superior power which had mysteriously linked its destinies with man's. And so he adds
but by reason of him who hath subjected the same—"who subjected it."
in hope—or "in hope that."
For, etc.—"The apostle, fired with the thought of the future glory of the saints, pours forth this splendid passage, in which he represents the whole creation groaning under its present degradation, and looking and longing for the revelation of this glory as the end and consummation of its existence" [HODGE].
the earnest expectation—(compare Philippians 1:20).
of the creature—rather, "the creation."
waiteth for the manifestation—"is waiting for the revelation"
of the sons of God—that is, "for the redemption of their bodies" from the grave (Romans 8:23), which will reveal their sonship, now hidden (compare Luke 20:36; Revelation 21:7).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Romans 8:20:
Psalms 96:11-13
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Isaiah 11:6
Isaiah 44:23
Isaiah 55:12
Jeremiah 7:20
Ezekiel 10:1
Ezekiel 10:14
Ezekiel 36:4
Jonah 3:7
Romans 8:13
Romans 8:27
1 Corinthians 1:9
Colossians 3:3
Hebrews 12:23
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