foreknow
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"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
Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
“Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.”
From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins
“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 The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr
Did he, like the old hero Njal, "gentle and generous," foreknow his end as he chose out this quiet, beautiful spot?
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
Those whom God foreknew, GW also predestined to be conformed to the image of God's child .
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now his heart foreknew the wrath to come, but he could not take flight, being by Athena bound there.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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Even before my own had time to blink I foreknew that never, in time or in eternity, should I be able to make Philippa accept thoroughly my explanation.
From In Mr. Knox's Country by Martin Ross
Subsequently, sitting with His disciples over against the temple, He showed how well He foreknew the terrible fate which hung over the capital of His country, and how poignantly He felt it.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by James Stalker
Indeed carnal reason will say that God foreknew what they would do, and so he chose or rejected them.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
But she could not speak, or would not, foreknowing what must happen now that had never happened to her before.
From Stradella by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
But this, thou wilt say, is the very point in dispute—whether any foreknowing is possible of things whose occurrence is not necessary.
From The Consolation of Philosophy by H. R. (Henry Rosher) James
Wherefore we must consider what is true in the matter of foreknowing the future from dreams.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
So, foreknowing the years, and sharply discerning the future, Guessing the riddle of life, and accepting the cruel solution,–– Side by side they sat, as far as the stars are asunder.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
Many a time of late Has he, by some strange gift of foreknowing, Declared his fate was hovering in such wise!
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy
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
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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
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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.
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Whether he will do so or not must always have been positively foreknown to Omniscience; but that fact in no degree affects his power of deciding for himself.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton