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30. But
let us proceed in our study of these Commentaries; otherwise, in
dwelling too long upon a few special points, we may be prevented from
taking notice of the greater number. In the same book and the same
passage2874
are the words “To the end
that we should be unto the praise of his glory, we who had before hoped
in Christ.” His comment is:
“If it had been simply
said ‘We have trusted in Christ,’ and there had not been
the prefix ‘before,’ which stands in the Greek προηλπικότες, the sense would be quite clear, namely, that those who
have hoped in Christ have been chosen in due order2875
| 2875 Reading ‘sorte’ as in the Comm. itself. | and have been predestinated according
to the purpose of him who orders all things according to the counsel of
his own will. But, as it stands, the addition of the preposition
‘before,’ compels us to explain it according to the same
ideas which we argued in a former place to be necessary for the
explanation of the passage, “Who hath blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as he chose
us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
and without blemish before him:” namely, that God had blessed us
before in heaven with all spiritual blessing, and had chosen us before
the world was framed; and that thus we are said to have hoped in Christ
‘before,’ that is, in the time when we were elected and
predestinated and blessed in heaven.”E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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