note to what God begot us: “to living hope,” the opposite of an empty, false, deceptive hope. This hope is not “lively” (A. V.) or “living” because it is bright, strong, active in us but because God guarantees and produces its fulfillment. All men have some sort of hope, but while so many deceive themselves with the dead hopes of their own making, we, whom God himself begot, have a living hope that rests on God’s promises and power. When the hopes of others go to pieces in the last flood, our hope