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 He said to them, "Going into all the world, preach the Gospel to the whole creation.
For the earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of choice, but by reason of Him Who subjected it, in hope read more. that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;
nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Who is the image of the invisible God, Primal Source of all creation;
And every created thing which is in Heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying, "To Him Who sitteth upon the throne, and to the Lamb, be the blessing, and the honor, and the glory, and the might, forever and ever!"
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 earnest longing of the creation is waiting for the revelation of the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to vanity, not of choice, but by reason of Him Who subjected it, in hope read more. that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation is groaning and travailing in pain together until now;
Wherefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, they have become new.
Because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, when it is received with thanksgiving;