Reference: Creature
Easton
denotes the whole creation in Ro 8:39; Col 1:15; Re 5:13; the whole human race in Mr 16:15; Ro 8:19-22.
The living creatures in Eze 10:15,17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
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And the cherubs will be lifted up. This the living creature which I saw by the river Chebar.
In their standing, they will stand: and in their rising, they will rise with them: for the spirit of life was in them:
And he said to them, Having gone into all the world proclaim the good news to all creation.
For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, read more. That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now.
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, shall be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation:
And every creature which is in heaven, and in earth, and under the earth, and upon the sea, which are, and all things in them, heard I saying, To him sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, praise, and honour, and glory, and strength, for the times of times.
Hastings
In AV 'creature' is used in the general (and original) sense of 'what is created.' Thus 2Co 5:17 'if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature'; 1Ti 4:4 'for every creature of God is good.' In Ro 8:19-21 it is not merely living creatures in the modern use of the word that wait for deliverance, but the whole creation of God (as AV itself has it in Ro 8:22).
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For the anxious expectation of the creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to vanity, not voluntarily, but by him having subjected in hope, read more. That also the creation itself be freed from servitude of corruption to the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now.
So that if any in Christ, a new creation: old things have passed away; behold, all have become new.
For every created thing of God good, and nothing thrown away, received with thanks: