(2) For we through the (d) Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
(2) He privately compares the new people with the old: for it is certain that they also did ground all their hope of justification and life in faith, and not in circumcision, but in such a way that their faith was wrapped in the external and ceremonial worship. But our faith is without such ceremony, and content with spiritual worship.
(d) Through the Spirit who brings about faith.