HOPE:
Hope (Noun and Verb), Hope (for) [Noun] elpis in the NT, "favorable and confident expectation" (contrast the Sept. in Isaiah_28:19, "an evil hope"). It has to do with the unseen and the future, Rom_8:24,25. "Hope" describes (a) the happy anticipation of good (the most frequent significance), e.g., Titus_1:2; 1_Pet_1:21; (b) the ground upon which "hope" is based, Acts_16:19; Col_1:27, "Christ in you the hope of glory;" (c) the object upon which the "hope" is fixed, e.g., 1_Tim_1:1.
Various phrases are used with the word "hope," in Paul's Epistles and speeches:
1.Acts_23:6, "the hope and resurrection of the dead;" this has been regarded as a hendiadys (one by means of two), i.e., the "hope" of the resurrection; but the kai, "and," is epexegetic, defining the "hope," namely, the resurrection; 2.Acts_26:6,7, "the hope of the promise (i.e., the fulfillment of the promise) made unto the fathers;" 3.Gal_5:5, "the hope of righteousness;" i.e., the believer's complete conformity to God's will, at the coming of Christ; 4.Col_1:23, "the hope of the Gospel," i.e., the "hope" of the fulfillment of all the promises presented in the Gospel; cp. Col_1:5; 5.Rom_5:2, "(the) hope of the glory of God," i.e., as in Titus_2:13, "the blessed hope and appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ;" cp. Col_1:27; 6.1_Thess_5:8, "the hope of salvation," i.e., of the rapture of believers, to take place at the opening of the Parousia of Christ; 7.Eph_1:18, "the hope of His (God's) calling," i.e., the prospect before those who respond to His call in the Gospel; elpizo "to hope," is not infrequently translated in the AV, by the verb "to trust;"
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