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sons of God. For the creature was made subject 

 to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who 

 hath subjected the same in hope, because the crea- 

 ture itself also shall be delivered from the bondage 

 of corruption into the glorious liberty of the chil- 

 dren of God. For we know that the whole crea- 

 tion groaneth and travaileth in pain together until 

 now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which 

 have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves 

 groan within ourselves waiting for the adoption, to 

 wit, the redemption of our body." 



Every sentence in the above quotation proves 

 that animals have immortal souls and that they are 

 waiting for the redemption which was made 

 through the atonement of Christ. In the first sen- 

 tence quoted, when the inspired writer says God 

 will gather together, in one, all things in Christ, 

 both which are in heaven and which are on the 

 earth, He could not possibly limit " all things " to 

 man alone. No man of education would risk his 

 reputation by asserting that man alone was included. 



In the next sentence the word creature cannot 

 mean man, for the writer declares that the whole 

 creation groaneth, and not only they, the creatures, 

 but ourselves, man, also. 



