Over one hundred years ago, Walter Arthur Copinger, commenting on Romans 8:29, explains the first two understandings, but offers us a better one: The word “foreknown” has three significations. One is general, importing simply a knowledge of things before they come into existence; the second signification is knowledge accompanied by a decree, for whatever God decrees shall be, He necessarily foresees will be; the third signification of the word is taken for a knowledge of love and approbation. It is in this last sense that the word is used in the passage under consideration.3 (Emphasis are
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