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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Romans 8:29
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate. To foreknow
and to predestinate are not the same thing. One is an act of
foreknowledge, or knowing something before it occurs; the other is to
decree something. We only have knowledge of the past, but God foresees
the future even as he sees the past; foresees it, not because he has
decreed it, but because there are no limitations on his knowledge.
Augustine says:
``There can be no predestination without foreknowledge; but
there can be foreknowledge without predestination.'
"Whom does God foreknow"? Those who shall love God. As he looked
into the future these were present to his mind; foreknown. "What did he
predestinate of them"? Not that they should love God. Not that they
should believe; nor that some should be saved and others damned; but
that those who he saw beforehand would love God, should be
conformed to the image of his Son. The only thing predestinated,
or foreordained, is that those who love God as revealed in Christ shall
become Christlike in life, and like Christ in eternity. This is the
only decree in the passage.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
John 16:22
Romans 8:29
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