forepurpose
nounEtymology
From fore- + purpose.
Definitions
A predetermined purpose
- According to the forepurpose of eternity, which he wrought in Christ Jesus, the Lord of us; [...]
- Man in the mind of God, in the eternal foreknowledge and forepurpose of God, man "as he shall be when his becoming shall be complete," is not less but more man than in his inchoate beginnings and in his incomplete processes.
- Out of his own forepurpose and will, he has cast away some to be damned which would not and should not be saved, and they out of necessity must be damned and so he has particularly redeemed some, and left others to perish.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for forepurpose. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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