Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
The earnest expectation of creation (h apokaradokia thv ktisewv). This substantive has so far been found nowhere save here and Philippians 1:20, though the verb apokaradokew is common in Polybius and Plutarch. Milligan (Vocabulary) thinks that Paul may have made the substantive from the verb. It is a double compound (apo, off from, kara, head, dokew, Ionic verb, to watch), hence to watch eagerly with outstretched head.
Waiteth for (apekdexetai). See on I Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 5:5 for this rare word (possibly formed by Paul, Milligan). "To wait it out" (Thayer).
The revealing of the sons of God (thn apokaluyin twn uiwn tou qeou). Cf. I John 3:2; II Thessalonians 2:8; Colossians 3:4. This mystical sympathy of physical nature with the work of grace is beyond the comprehension of most of us. But who can disprove it?
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Romans 8:19:
Romans 8:23
1 Corinthians 1:7
Philippians 1:20
Colossians 1:20
Hebrews 9:11
Hebrews 10:27
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