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foreknow

[fawr-noh, fohr-] / fɔrˈnoʊ, foʊr- /






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It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk

Question at times She made, yet seemed the answer to foreknow.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by Aubrey De Vere

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.

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

Those who marry are considered to foreknow and to foresee these duties, and to pledge themselves to do the best in their power to discharge them.

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by George Jacob Holyoake

Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .

From Time Magazine Archive

Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Then and there he foreknew and foreordained all human tears.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Robert Green Ingersoll

“But now, do you believe, Mr Liversedge,—I have picked up the words from this fellow—that God elected men because He foreknew them, or that He foreknew because He had elected them?”

From Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow by Emily Sarah Holt

But we affirm that, if God foreknew it, this volition would certainly and without fail occur in this very Judas….

From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

His image was all the more pale and ineffectual now because, foreknowing them well, he had not mastered them.

From The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

I speak not, my lord, as wishful of what I say, but simply as foreknowing it.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville

I thought that she was kindly sent, In gracious God's foreknowing, To save from fatal detriment, This infant nation growing.

From Lays of Ancient Virginia, and Other Poems by James Avis Bartley

Again, we take no pleasure in foreknowing the fate of wholly uninteresting people; which is as much as to say that character is indispensable to enduring interest in drama.

From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

"Unwillingly foreknowing That love with May-time flees, We take this day's bestowing, And feed on fantasies Such as love lends for ease Where none but travaileth, With lean, infrequent fees, Until released by death."

From The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

Emergency managers in central Puget Sound understand what is possible and are doing their best to plan for the foreknown consequences of a major earthquake.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2021

"The fortunes of cities, as well as of men," said Plutarch, "have their certain periods of time prefixed, which may be collected and foreknown from the position of the stars."

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet, although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hence, he clearly maintains, that unless human volitions are necessarily brought to pass by the influence of motives, they are not certain in themselves, and hence are incapable of being foreknown.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe


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