Romans 8:26

Romans 8:26. Likewise the Spirit, &c.— 'Ωσαυτως, likewise, always in the New Testament signifies in like manner, or agreeably to what is mentioned just before.

Here it may be rendered, agreeably to this, namely, to our being saved by hope [or in a course of patient expectation, mentioned in the former verse.]. Dr. Doddridge renders συναντιλαμβανεται, leadeth his helping hand. It literally signifies "the action of one who helps another to raise or bear a burden, by taking hold of it on one side, andlifting it or bearing it with him:" and so it seems to intimate the obligation on us, to exert our little strength, feeble as it is, in concurrence with this Almight