foreknow

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Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a ball depending on a combination of circumstances which would seem impossible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

“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 Cavins, Elmer W.

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 Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

See also Rom. viii, 29, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,” and “whom he did predestinate —he called—justified—and sanctified.”

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

In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.

From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van