(23) For we are saved by hope: but (f) hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
(23) Sixthly, hope is necessarily joined with faith: seeing then that we believe those things which we are not yet in possession of, and hope does not refer to the thing that is present, we must therefore hope and patiently wait for that which we believe will come to pass.
(f) This is spoken by the figure of speech metonymy, that is, "hope", which stands for that which is hoped for.