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Foreknowledge (Ππόγνωσις)
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Basic Bible Teaching
By:
George A. Morrish
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Foreknowledge (πρόγνωσις)
From:
Concise Bible Dictionary: F
A knowledge of persons and events before they exist. It is one of the divine attributes of God, by which persons were foreknown of Him and events determined. It is a capacity altogether beyond the mind of man to grasp (
Acts 2:23
23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: (Acts 2:23)
;
Rom. 8:29
29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. (Romans 8:29)
;
Rom. 11:2
2
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, (Romans 11:2)
;
1 Pet. 1:2
2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2)
). The verb is also translated “know before” (
2 Pet. 3:17
17
Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. (2 Peter 3:17)
); and “foreordain” (
1 Pet. 1:20
20
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, (1 Peter 1:20)
).
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