For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
Encouragement to enduring perseverance, by consideration of the shortness of the time until Christ shall come, and God's rejection of him that draws back, from Habakkuk 2:3-4.
A little while (John 16:16).
He that shall come - literally, 'the Comer.' In Habakkuk it is the vision about to come. Christ, the grand subject of all prophetic vision, is made by Paul, under inspiration, the ultimate subject of the Spirit's prophecy by Habakkuk, in its exhaustive fulfillment.