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CHAPTER IX. 



SAINT PAUL ON PREDESTINATION. 



[The present chapter is reproduced, with some alterations 

 and omissions, from an article of the writer's, bearing the same 

 title, in the Expositor, second series, vol. vii., 1884.] 



THE subject of God's judgment and man's re- 

 sponsibility naturally raises the question of man's 

 freedom, and the relation of that freedom, to God's 

 absolute Foreknowledge and omnipotent Will. In 

 the present chapter, I propose to consider the teach- 

 ing of those very few passages of Holy Scripture 

 which touch on this question. 



The word "foreordain" is substituted in the 

 Revised Version for "predestinate," in Romans viii. 

 29 ; "to ordain " being a common word in Biblical 

 English, while " to destine " and " destiny " do not 

 occur there. I follow their example by substituting 

 " foreordain" and " f oreordination " for "predestin- 

 ate" and "predestination." 



The Epistle to the Philippians is perhaps on the 

 whole the most interesting of the writings of Saint 



