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Not a Divine 'Plan B'
Commentators unanimously stress that your salvation through Christ was not an afterthought or a reaction to the Fall. God 'foreknew' or 'foreordained' this plan from eternity, 'before the foundation of the world.' Scholars like Calvin and Barnes explain this provides immense security, showing that redemption has always been central to God's purpose.
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1 Peter
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Peter 1:20
18th Century
Theologian
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world. That is, it was foreordained, or predetermined, that He should be the grea…
AT Robertson
On 1 Peter 1:20
Who was foreknown indeed (προεγνωσμενου μεν). Perfect passive participle (in genitive singular agreeing with Χριστου) of προγινωσκ…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Peter 1:20
19th Century
Bishop
Who truly was foreordained.—There is a sharp contrast intended between the two clauses of this verse, and in the Greek the tenses …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Peter 1:20–21
19th Century
Preacher
Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by him do believe in God, tha…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Peter 1:20
Jesus “was chosen before the creation of the world.” “Chosen” (lit., “known before”; GK 4589) means more than “foresight,” for why would Peter at t…
John Calvin
On 1 Peter 1:20
16th Century
Theologian
Who verily was foreordained: He again, by a comparison, amplifies the grace of God, with which he had especially favored the people of tha…
John Gill
On 1 Peter 1:20
17th Century
Pastor
Who verily was foreordained Or "foreknown"; that is, by God; and which intends, not barely his prescience of Christ, of what he sho…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Peter 1:17–25
17th Century
Minister
Holy confidence in God as a Father and awe-filled fear of Him as a Judge harmonize; and to regard God always as a Judge endears Him to us as a Fath…