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Definition of Predestinating
1. predestinate [v] - See also: predestinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predestinating
Literary usage of Predestinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Problems of Philosophy by Paul Janet, Gabriel Séailles (1902)
"ledge of His in which He foreknew that they would be such: Therefore He elected
them,' says he, ' before they existed, predestinating them to be children ..."
2. Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and by Richard Watson (1851)
"... the Jews believed not was the want of such a predestinating act of God, and
not as it is affirmed, an act of their own —the PUTTING IT AWAY from them. ..."
3. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff by Augustine, John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1887)
"Therefore He elected them," says he, " before they existed, predestinating them
to be children whom He foreknew to be holy and immaculate. ..."
4. A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Churchby Augustine, John Chrysostom by Augustine, John Chrysostom (1887)
"Therefore He elected them," says he, " before they existed, predestinating them
to be children whom He foreknew to be holy and immaculate. ..."
5. The works of Thomas Goodwin by Thomas Goodwin (1862)
"But for them to say, the glory which I had with thee afore the world was ; this
their predestination, or God's single mere act of predestinating them, ..."