Foreknew (προεγνω). Second aorist active indicative of προγινωσκω, old verb as in Ac 26:5. See Ps 1:6 (LXX) and Mt 7:23. This fore…

For whom he did foreknow. The word used here (proginōskō) has been the subject of almost endle disputes regarding its meaning in …

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.—The process already summarized by these two phrases is now resolved m…

For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not…

Verse 28 begins with the notion that God works for the good of believers. This thought is connected with the foregoing section in that we now have …

For whom he has foreknown, etc. He then shows, by the very order of election, that the afflictions of the faithful are nothing ot…

For whom he did foreknow
The foreknowledge of God here, does not intend his prescience of all things future; by which he forek…

That is good for the saints which benefits their souls. Every providence tends to the spiritual good of those who love God; in breaking them off fr…

1. Having shown that the Holy Spirit helps us in the weakne es of the present life regarding the fulfillment of our desires, the Apostle now…