hope.” The hope here is the Christian hope of some day being like the Lord Jesus in respect to His glorified body. “In” is epi (ἐπι), literally, “upon.” The idea is, “hope resting upon Him,” or “hope set on Him.” The pronoun “Him” refers to the Lord Jesus, not to God the Father, as Smith so clearly brings out when he says: “hagnos (ἁγνος) (pure) also proves that the reference is to Christ. As distinguished from hagios (ἁγιος) (holy), which implies absolute and essential purity, it denotes purity