Verse 15.—'Where is now, therefore, my expectation?' 51. Amid so many evils of the just, their only hope is Christ.—What could be the expectation of the just, save God justifying the just, who of His own accord should descend to the penalties of the human race, and by the virtue of His righteousness should free the captives of death? For His presence they by no means ceased to await with intent thought: they knew He was to come, but they sought that He should come more quickly. Wherefore he says not: Where is therefore my expectation? but he says: Where is now, therefore, my expectation? For in adding 'now,' he shows that he desired that which was at some time to come to come more quickly. There follows: