(εἴτε κόσμος) or life or death or the present or the future, all are yours, and you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.”26 In Rom 8 Paul will claim that the entire creation waits with eager longing for the “revelation of the sons of God,” who as we shall see would take responsibility for the polluted world. “May God’s kingdom come” was part of the prayer every early Christian probably prayed daily, in the firm belief that the new social order in their love feasts was the harbinger thereof. Their