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From:
A Dictionary of Biblical Words and Phrases
By:
Alfred Taylor Schofield
• 1 min. read • grade level: 10
This word is often used very erroneously. In common language it always implies uncertainty, because this element always attaches to future things amongst men. In Scripture it is
never
so used, inasmuch as what is future, is just as certain as what is past. If we
hope
for a thing, then do we with patience wait for it (
Rom. 8:25
25
But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. (Romans 8:25)
) If, therefore, I say I hope for salvation, I mean I am patiently waiting for God to complete in the salvation of my body the work He has already begun in the saving of my soul. It is sometimes translated “trust.”
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