Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
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Gill's Exposition
Who verily was foreordained,.... Or "foreknown"; that is, by God; and which intends, not barely his prescience of Christ, of what he should be, do, and suffer; but such a previous knowledge of him,…
Barnes' Notes
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world - That is, it was foreordained, or predetermined, that he should be the great stoning Sacrifice for sin. On the meaning of the word…
Adam Clarke
Who verily was foreordained - Προεγνωσμενου· Foreknown; appointed in the Divine purpose to be sent into the world, because infinitely approved by the Divine justice.
Before the foundation of the world…
Here the apostle begins his exhortations to those whose glorious state he had before described, thereby instructing us that Christianity is a doctrine according to godliness, designed to make us not…
Cambridge Bible
who verily was foreordained Literally, foreknown, but the foreknowledge of God implies the foreordaining. Here also we note the coincidence with St Peter's language in Act 2:23; Act 3:18. The Greek…
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