A Hope of the Saints

Not the hope of the saints. The hope of the saints is the resurrection of their body in the day of Christ. To this future good the Holy Scriptures insistently direct the expectation of believers: "for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible" (I Cor. 15:52). But a hope of the saints. It is, to be sure, a lesser good than the resurrection of the body, but it is a real good for all that. Admittedly, it is not the ultimate longing of the child of God, but it is a...