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The Goal: Christ's Image
The ultimate purpose of God's plan for believers is not merely to save them from hell, but to transform them into the likeness of Jesus. Commentators stress that God's predestination is specifically "to be conformed to the image of his Son." This means the Christian life is a journey of becoming more like Christ in character now, with the promise of being fully like him in a glorified body later.
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Albert Barnes
On Romans 8:29
18th Century
Theologian
For whom he did foreknow. The word used here (proginōskō) has been the subject of almost endless disputes regarding its meaning i…
AT Robertson
On Romans 8:29
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…
Charles Ellicott
On Romans 8:29
19th Century
Bishop
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate.—The process already summarized by these two phrases is now resolved m…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Romans 8:24–30
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Romans 8:29
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 …
John Calvin
On Romans 8:29
16th Century
Theologian
For whom he has foreknown, etc. He then shows, by the very order of election, that the afflictions of the faithful are nothing ot…
John Gill
On Romans 8:29
17th Century
Pastor
For whom he did foreknow
The foreknowledge of God here, does not intend his prescience of all things future; by which he forek…
Matthew Henry
On Romans 8:28–31
17th Century
Minister
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…