Ed Walsh
Puritan Board Senior
This is my Quote of the Day—the fruit of the days reading—and expresses the longing of my soul:
Hence the apostle adds: we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we also still groan within ourselves, stretching out praying hands of hope and faith toward the end (cf. Rom. 8:23). This is a longing, a prayer, a beseeching of God that only the redeemed subject of religion can experience. The groaning of the irrational creature is left far behind by it. The Christian alone can experience it and does experience it with such intensity that it became to Paul in itself a prophecy of fulfillment. It is like the craving hunger that knows there must be bread somewhere.
Vos, Geerhardus (2001). The Eschatology of the Old Testament. (J. T. Dennison Jr., Ed.) (p. 7). Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
I know this hunger, it grows the older I get and the nearer to what I call the Great Adventure.
Hence the apostle adds: we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we also still groan within ourselves, stretching out praying hands of hope and faith toward the end (cf. Rom. 8:23). This is a longing, a prayer, a beseeching of God that only the redeemed subject of religion can experience. The groaning of the irrational creature is left far behind by it. The Christian alone can experience it and does experience it with such intensity that it became to Paul in itself a prophecy of fulfillment. It is like the craving hunger that knows there must be bread somewhere.
Vos, Geerhardus (2001). The Eschatology of the Old Testament. (J. T. Dennison Jr., Ed.) (p. 7). Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.
I know this hunger, it grows the older I get and the nearer to what I call the Great Adventure.
