Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Because, х dia (G1223) ton (G3588) hupotaxanta (G5293) ep' (G1909) elpidi (G1680), hoti (G3754)] - or, 'by reason of Him who subjected it in hope, That.' Since the words will bear either sense, interpreters are divided as to which shade of thought was intended. (The latter is preferred by Beza, Fritzsche, DeWette, Meyer, Tholuck, Philippi, Jowett, Webster and Wilkinson.) We prefer that of our own version (with the Vulgate, Luther, Calvin, Grotius, Bengel, Olshausen, Alford): compare the same phrase ("in hope," put absolutely), Acts 2:26; and see it (in another form) in Romans 8:24. The creature itself also (rather, 'even the creation itself,') shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption - that is, from its bondage to the principle of decay,
Into the glorious liberty, х eis (G1519) teen (G3588) eleutherian (G1657) tees (G3588) doxees (G1391)] - rather, 'into the liberty of the glory'
Of the children of God - meaning, into something of the same liberty which shall characterize the glorified state of the children of God themselves; in other words, the creation itself shall, in a glorious sense, be delivered into that same freedom from blight and debility, corruptibility and decay, in which the children of God, when raised up in glory, shall expatiate.