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Foreknow  v. t.  (past foreknew; past part. foreknown; pres. part. foreknowing)  To have previous knowledge of; to know beforehand. "Who would the miseries of man foreknow?"






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Foreknow" Quotes from Famous Books



... viii. 29, 30, it is written: "For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified; and whom He justified, them ...
— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace

... of God, on which hangs our willing and running and obtaining. It is certainly an unorderly order, to flee unto that in men, for the cause of God's eternal counsels, which only flows from his eternal counsel, Eph. i. 4. Hath he chosen us because he did foreknow that we would be holy, and without blame, as men think? Or hath he not rather chosen us to be holy and without blame? He cannot behold any good or evil in the creatures, till his will pass a sentence upon it; for ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning



Words linked to "Foreknow" :   previse, anticipate



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