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 are lifted up, it is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.
In their standing they stand, and in their exaltation they are exalted with them: for the living spirit is in them.
and he said to them, 'Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;
for the earnest looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it -- in hope, read more. that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God; for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.
nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,
and every creature that is in the heaven, and in the earth, and under the earth, and the things that are upon the sea, and the all things in them, heard I saying, 'To Him who is sitting upon the throne, and to the Lamb, is the blessing, and the honour, and the glory, and the might -- to the ages of the ages!'
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 looking out of the creation doth expect the revelation of the sons of God; for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it -- in hope, read more. that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of the glory of the children of God; for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now.
so that if any one is in Christ -- he is a new creature; the old things did pass away, lo, become new have the all things.
because every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received,