How To Use Foreknow In A Sentence
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The government had some foreknowledge from an informant as well as the buzz of rumours, but there had been so many rumours and false alarms that at first it did not take it seriously.
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And since predestination is comprised under foreknowledge, the gloss in the beginning of the Psalter assigns only two species to prophecy, namely of _foreknowledge, _ and of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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But probably God's foreknowledge of His own people means His "peculiar, gracious, complacency in them," while His "predestinating" or
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The most entertaining moment is John Hurt - a distinguished, multi-award winning actor - revealing his foreknowledge of the WH40K universe gained through his son being an enormous fan, and Donald Sumpter dryly pointing out the rarity of being asked to play eight-foot-tall armour-plated killing machines at his age.
Actors announced for WARHAMMER 40,000 movie
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And everything after the fact so foreknown, the game itself sometimes already in the past while he still described it; often the afternoon papers were on the streets with the final box score while he described for his listeners the seventh-inning stretch or reported a struggle in the box seats over the recovery of a foul ball -- his foreknowledge hindsight, a coy tool of suspense: DiMaggio swings.
Style in Fiction
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If, for the sake of argument, we were to adopt this diluted interpretation of the verb "foreknow" in Rom. 8: 29, we are not to readily conclude that what we call the particularistic exegesis would have to be abandoned and the absolute sovereignty of God in the matter of election to life be eliminated.
Possessing the Treasure
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My room sways with foreknowledge of its imminent destruction.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The whole difficulty lies in the acts of free agents being certain; yet certainty is required for foreknowledge as well as for foreordination.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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What can foreknow is, national network TV station and CCTV net will be inseparable.
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For so the Son of God was "foreknown" (so the Greek for "foreordained," 1Pe 1: 20) to be the sacrificial Lamb, not against, or without His will, but His will rested in the will of the Father; this includes self-conscious action; nay, even cheerful acquiescense.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Leading Democratic operatives had foreknowledge of this story as early as July and were telling friends about it back then.
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Secondly, God foreknows certain things in themselves -- either as to be accomplished by Himself, and of such things is the prophecy of _predestination, _ since, according to Damascene (De Fide Orth. ii, 30), "God predestines things which are not in our power" -- or as to be accomplished through man's free-will, and of such is the prophecy of
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Those who believe that it is impossible to foreknow the universe's halt state must also believe
THE BROKEN GOD
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These theorists reject divine timelessness and immutability, along with infallible foreknowledge, arguing that not only should foreknowledge be rejected because of its fatalist consequences, the view of a God who takes risks is more faithful to Scripture than the classical notion of an essentially omniscient and foreknowing deity.
Foreknowledge and Free Will
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He seeks to reject all foreknowledge in doing this.
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Paul de Man, who introduced the deconstructionist theory of Jacques Derrida to American readers after the New Criticism had become a received orthodoxy, detected in the New Critics a "foreknowledge" of what he called, borrowing a phrase from the Swiss critic Georges Poulet, "hermeneutic circularity.
The Decline and Fall of Literature
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Watching a movie without any foreknowledge was an unusual treat.
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Thus Luther calls the foreknowledge of God a thunderbolt to dash the doctrine of free-will into atoms.
A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory
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If he really did file the form a few weeks before the need for a nanny cover developed, that suggests that there either was some nanny or some foreknowledge of a need to create a paper trail.
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As much we may say of them that are troubled with their fortunes; or ill destinies foreseen: multos angit praecientia malorum: The foreknowledge of what shall come to pass, crucifies many men: foretold by astrologers, or wizards, iratum ob coelum, be it ill accident, or death itself: which often falls out by God's permission; quia daemonem timent (saith Chrysostom) Deus ideo permittit accidere.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The media may not be clairvoyant, but their foreknowledge of all things electoral seems to be an entirely natural, irremovable part of the electoral exercise.
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'When it is increased to _certainty_, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown, which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any _contingency_ dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780
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Spirit foreknowing the doctrines of the evil teachers; that they may learn that from his seed -- that is, from Joseph -- He was not to be born but that, according to the promise of God, from David's belly the King eternal is raised up, who sums up all things in Himself, and has gathered into Himself the ancient formation [of man].
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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And yet the following points favor the notion of instinctual foreknowledge of violations of conscience:
CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
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Those who believe that it is impossible to foreknow the universe's halt state must also believe
THE BROKEN GOD
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She has maintained that the General had foreknowledge of the plot.
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But even with foreknowledge it can be challenging.
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For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn.
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It is all foreknown and foretold by the chorus - as on any stage in ancient Athens.
Peter Stothard - Times Online - WBLG:
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Because of His foreknowledge he not only makes a prediction but makes a prediction based on what He knows you will do.
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It simply means that our free will, within time, exists alongside God's foreknowledge, outside of time.
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Right, but that's a rather rigid view as though "foreknown" can't be a part of an overall foreordained scheme.
It Is Written: LOST and Slumdog Millionaire, Peter and Judas, Ben and John
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" Rom 8:29.
"First the fruit, now the vegetable..."
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For that cause belike Alexander discerning this inconvenience and danger that comes by seeing, [5655] when he heard Darius's wife so much commended for her beauty, would scarce admit her to come in his sight, foreknowing belike that of Plutarch, formosam videre periculosissimum, how full of danger it is to see a proper woman, and though he was intemperate in other things, yet in this superbe se gessit, he carried himself bravely.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Earthly occurrences and objects are not only regarded as "foreknown" by
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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I guess what I am saying is, the "conspiraloons" are focusing too much on the Power/Visor Consulting simulation, and they need to focus on the Israeli foreknowledge which is there in print in the Bild am Sontag 10th or 11th July 2005 edition.
If you are a conspiracy theorist....
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This he took in good part, and was really pleased, nodding his head with direful foreknowledge and mystery, until George Leach, the erstwhile cabin-boy, ventured some rough pleasantry on the subject.
Chapter 9
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For all things that were created appeared in their Creator's reason because they existed in his foreknowledge.
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'When it is increased to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown, which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else.'
Life of Johnson
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Since these events are foreknown, they are fixed and settled things; and nothing can have fixed and settled them except the good pleasure of God, — the great first cause, — freely and unchangeably foreordaining whatever comes to pass.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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So that what we say about future events being foretold, we do not say it as if they came about by a fatal necessity; but God foreknowing all that shall be done by all men, and it being His decree that the future actions of men shall all be recompensed according to their several value, He foretells by the
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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For the punishment foreknown, if not great enough to deter men from the action, is an invitement to it: because when men compare the benefit of their injustice with the harm of their punishment, by necessity of nature they choose that which appeareth best for themselves: and therefore when they are punished more than the law had formerly determined, or more than others were punished for the same crime, it is the law that tempted and deceiveth them.
Leviathan
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Erik fears metamorphosis because he cannot foreknow what he'll become, yet he fears what he has become: adrift and a disappointment to the memory of his students and the effort of his friends.
Butterfly, Butterflown
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God's unerring foreknowledge and foreordaining is designated in the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Does this mean that the Eternal-Uncreate chose, from foreknowledge of what Jeremiah would be, the created Ego of His immaterialized servant in heaven ere he clothed his soul with the mortal integument of flesh in human birth -- schooling him above for the part he had to play here below as a prophet to dramatize in his life and teaching the will of the Unseen?
Mystic Christianity
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That's why, no matter how in depth a study is, knowledge learned from it is only experience, not foreknowledge.
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Therefore we must confess that He, who is ever the same, has commanded these and such like institutions on account of sinful men, and we must declare Him to be benevolent, foreknowing, needing nothing, righteous and good.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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This sort of foreknowledge is in God, who at one commanding view sees all things that ever were, or are, or ever will be.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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Could some of the individuals brought down in this catastrophe have had astrological foreknowledge?
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It is about the King's heir, the Shepherd of the People, kissing his wife farewell at the gatehouse, as he leaves for battle foreknowing his death.
The King Must Die
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According to the English Oratorian priest Father Frederick Faber in his book Bethlehem, Our Lord's awareness of the sins of the world caused Him a "spiritual agony," in addition to the foreknowledge of His coming Passion.
Archive 2009-01-01
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It is tempting to imagine that the elegy was written in some kind of foreknowledge of the untimely silencing of his own sweet blackbird song.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Although, to Augustine, the Salvation of the Elect was foreknown by God before the creation of the universe, the Church also plays a vital role in Salvation.
Augustine vs. Pelagius Part Two - Grace, Salvation, and Redemption | Heretical Ideas Magazine
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Archelaus, having received the authority which had been allotted to him, Pilate sent to him by way of compliment Jesus bound; and God foreknowing that this would happen, had thus spoken: ` And they brought
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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If this exegesis, which takes the verb "foreknow" in the diluted sense of prescience, is not acceptable, what then, we may ask, is the meaning of foreknowledge?
Possessing the Treasure
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[2] Dr. Coplestone, now the Bishop of Llandaff, denies that the foreknowledge of an event proves the _event to be necessary_.
On Calvinism
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In what sense are we to take the word "foreknow" here?
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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He had explained that, for the purposes of their discussion, he was assuming that God does not cause the events he foreknows: he knows them because they happen, rather than their happening because he foreknows them.
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He looked dismayed at her foreknowledge of what he had come to say.
THE OTHER DEVIL'S NAME
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Do you suppose, however, that the cells in my brain can't foreknow what it's like to grow without bound?
THE BROKEN GOD
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Its not controled by a diety that has an actual foreknowledge of coming events.
Think Progress » Atomic scientists push back Doomsday Clock because of Obama’s ‘pragmatic’ foreign policy.
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Do you suppose, however, that the cells in my brain can't foreknow what it's like to grow without bound?
THE BROKEN GOD
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God's foreknowledge is not the perception of any ground of action out of Himself; still in it liberty is comprehended, and all absolute constraint debarred [Anselm in Steiger].
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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By the time Chatton was writing, it was quite common to present a basic fatalist or necessitarian argument to show that God's foreknowledge, which seems deeply connected to his providence, is not consistent with future contingent things and events.
Walter Chatton
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The resulting instability in the economy, particularly on the stock markets, allows anyone with foreknowledge of the rise or fall to exploit that knowledge to make extreme profits.
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I want the answer to whether divulging the name of a covert CIA operative (whether or not you had foreknowledge that she was covert), as an act of revenge/malice, would in any way influence the granting or maintenance of a high-level (such as codeword) security clearance.
07/11/2005
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Of or relating to the theology of Jacobus Arminius and his followers, who believed that predestination was conditioned by God's foreknowledge of human free choices.
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In the eyes, God declares his knowledge, by which he foresees and foreknows all.
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The foreknowledge/free will incompatibilist must therefore find a principle in place of (5b) that is true and that permits the inference to the non-causability of the future.
Foreknowledge and Free Will
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Well, as I said, there was general foreknowledge of the attacks in that area.
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Consequently, if anything is about to be, and yet its occurrence is not certain and necessary, how can anyone foreknow that it will occur?
Consolation of Philosophy
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The owner of resource and requestor do not foreknow each other.
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They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
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God elects his people according to his foreknowledge of their choice of him.
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I should have expected that this foreknowledge should have been resolved rather into a middle or conditionate prescience than into this pre-approbation, but that our great masters were pleased (in the place newly cited), though without any attempt of proof, to carry it another way.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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Foreknowledge is not foreordination, predestination, or even predetermination (though these can be a result of foreknowledge).
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It will not help us, as the foreknowing authors point out in the next line, to daub a raven, smearing a black bird with the delicate beauties of the lark or the decent brown
Nightside The Long Sun
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The perspective is one of both hindsight and foreknowledge, and the predecessor is Hamlet's father.
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If something is foreordained, rather than foreknown, then I do think the issue of responsibility exists.
It Is Written: LOST and Slumdog Millionaire, Peter and Judas, Ben and John
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If we say that the meaning of the verb "foreknow" in Rom. 8: 29 is "whom he foresaw as believing and persevering," we are not to think that we have ended the matter, for we are compelled to ask the further question: Whence this faith which God foresees?
Possessing the Treasure
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For the punishment foreknown, if not great enough to deterre men from the action, is an invitement to it: because when men compare the benefit of their Injustice, with the harm of their punishment, by necessity of Nature they choose that which appeareth best for themselves; and therefore when they are punished more than the Law had formerly determined, or more than others were punished for the same Crime; it the Law that tempted, and deceiveth them.
Leviathan
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First, the short answer to the question whether God can foreknow contingent events is no.
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In designating the latter as "foreknown" by God, the primary idea is not to ennoble the creature, but rather to bring to light the wisdom and power of God.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
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For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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But there is nothing problematic about that kind of foreknowledge because events could have proven me wrong even though as events actually turned out, they didn't prove me wrong.
Foreknowledge and Free Will
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With films, you might have been showered with trailers and pre-release buzz, or you might have gone to see it on a whim, with no foreknowledge.
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Before undertaking to fathom with the plummet of logic the unsoundable mystery of foreknowledge, let us see what we can know through a return to the real nature of man as he is, and especially to the real nature of the new Adam who is Christ, the Son of
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
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The entire article amounted to a diversion from the real issue of government foreknowledge and the government's failure to act on what it knew.
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Yes, there is the element of consent and the obvious foreknowledge that physical contact sports carry an inherent risk of injury.
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Foreknowledge must not be confused with foreordination.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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It is through the Dandy that the artist foreknows his double nature.
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Whom he did foreknow, that is, whom he designed for his friends and favourites.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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A childish foreknowledge, that with love there had to be loss.
SEA MUSIC
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And let it be noticed further that if Paul had here used the term "foreknow" in the sense that election was based on mere foreknowledge, it would have contradicted his statement elsewhere that it is according to the good pleasure of God.
The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
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But this, thou wilt say, is the very point in dispute — whether any foreknowing is possible of things whose occurrence is not necessary.
Consolation of Philosophy
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They were not coeternal with him, yet they were foreknown, foreseen, and foreordained by him.
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Did not foreknow, without precaution, can freeze to death.
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That goes beyond instinct; it would require a degree of foreknowledge literally psychic in its extent.
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[Don't give me some flimsy "foreknowledge is not determinism" line, either.
Your Right Hand Thief
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The media may not be clairvoyant, but their foreknowledge of all things electoral seems to be an entirely natural, irremovable part of the electoral exercise.
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Yes, there is the element of consent and the obvious foreknowledge that physical contact sports carry an inherent risk of injury.
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God foreknowing all things; as I have pointed out in the preceding book, [4785] and have also shown, as far as was possible, the cause of the creation of this world of temporal things.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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I won't, because I wouldn't want you to have foreknowledge of a felony.
A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES
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The only conclusion you can draw from this is that foreknowledge only extended to the timing and targets of the attacks, but not to the specific planes that would be used.
