Hope.

Bible Treasury, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, July 1856.

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Hope enters the heart, so to speak, as a physician or as a conqueror, to heal in the day of sorrow and disappointment, or to be the ascendant in the day of prosperity.

It is seen in the antediluvian saints, in the Genesis — fathers, in Joseph in Gen. 50; in Israel, in Ex. 12; in Moses, in Num. 10:29; in David, in 1 Chr. 29:15, in one or other of these.

The Lord had it as a conqueror in John 12:24, as a relief in Heb. 12:2. We are called to it in each of these ways.

The Spirit forms it in the heart as necessarily as faith,*  Ex. 12:7-11, 1 Thess. 1:9-10, Rom. 5:12.

Different objects it apprehends — rest after conflict (2 Thess. 1, 2 Tim. 4); a pure kingdom after a defiled world (2 Peter); Christ Himself (Luke 12:36, Matt. 25:4, 1 John 3:2-3); a harvest after a first-fruits (1 Cor. 15).

{* Accordingly, at the beginning, Adam had no promise given him as to the future and glory, but as soon as he had faith, he had hope, walking as a stranger here, as well as a saved sinner.}