1 Peter 1:20 (WEB)
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in this last age for your sake,
Catechism · 1
“He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake."” — Catechism footnote: I Pt 1:18-20.
Fathers and councils · 4
Ambrose of Milan
“…was made Wisdom for us: “But we preach the Wisdom of God in doctrine of mystery, which Wisdom is hidden, foreordained by God before the existence of the world for our glory, and which none of the princes of this world knew, for had they known they would never have crucified the Lord of glory.”” — editor's note: Cf. 1 Pet. i. 19–21; Eph. i. 4; Col. i. 26, 27.
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Tertullian
“We have been predestined by God, before the world was, (to arise) in the extreme end of the times.” — editor's note: In extimatione temporali. See Eph. i. 4 and 1 Pet. i. 20.
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Augustine of Hippo
“…out His own blood unindebtedly; but that they who belong to the grace of Christ, foreknown, and predestinated, and elected before the foundation of the world should only so far die as Christ Himself died for them, i.e. only by the death of the flesh, not of the spirit.” — editor's note: 1 Pet. i. 20
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Clement of Alexandria
““Verily foreknown before the foundation of the world.”” — editor's note: Ver. 20.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XIII.15.
Cited together in Catechism §602.
Cited together in Catechism §602.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in Catechism §602.
Cited together in Catechism §602.
Cited together in Catechism §602.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.
Cited together in On the Apparel of Women II.8.