the messianic inheritance, now to be shared with all the Messiah’s people, is the whole creation, set free from its slavery to corruption. So when he says here that God ‘will . . . freely give all things to us’ this is quite specific. As in 1 Corinthians 3.21–3, ‘all things are yours’, because ‘you belong to the Messiah and the Messiah belongs to God’.
