For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
For we know that the whole creation groaneth,.... As a woman with child, ready to bring forth: for it is added, and travaileth in pain together until now; regeneration is owing to the grace of God, which is compared to "seed", of which men are born again; the means of conveying it is the Gospel, and ministers are the instruments of begetting souls to Christ...
All believers are heirs of God Himself and joint-heirs with Christ, not by their own merit, but purely by His act. Though now they are heirs still under age, educated and prepared, they possess in reversion what the world counts as nothing. How comfortable for the poor saint: his poverty matters little when he inherits God Himself and all things with Christ.
AI summary
Commenting on Romans 8:17-25
Verse 22. For we know.The sentiment of this verse is designed as an illustration of what had just been said. That the whole creation. Margin, "every creature." This expression has been commonly understood as meaning the same as "the creature" in . But I understand it as having a different signification; and as being used in the natural and usual signification of the word creature, or creation.