“Looking for that blessed hope.” The character of this hope is at least fivefold. There is the definiteness of the hope, the delightfulness of the hope, the dividends in the hope, the decree for the hope, and the desirability of the hope. “Hope.” We have already noted in our introduction that this hope is not wistful thinking, but it is a definite, certain hope. The word translated “hope” in our text does not mean a mere possibility—something
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