Predestinate
Predestinate
The apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, (Rom 8:29) speaking of God, saith, “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.” And elsewhere the same apostle, speaking of the church in Christ, saith, “that he hath predestinated them to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” (Eph 1:5) Hence it will follow, that all the purposes of God in Christ concerning redemption are first formed in the Lord Jesus, and then the church in him; and hence the church is represented as saying: with one voice, (2Ti 1:9) “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures
Predestinate
. ‘To mark out beforehand, predetermine.’ In Rom 8:29-30, it forms a link in the chain that connects the foreknowledge of God in the past with the glory in the future. Election is God’s choice of individuals; predestination is to a blessing, as in Eph 1:5; Eph 1:11, believers are predestinated to the adoption of sons, according to the purpose of God. Predestination does not, as insisted on by some, imply reprobation of some to wrath. God “will have [or desires] all men to be saved,” 1Ti 2:4; but to ensure some being saved, He predestinated, called, justified, and glorified them in His sovereign purpose.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Predestinate
see DETERMINE.
Note: This verb is to be distinguished from proginosko, “to foreknow;” the latter has special reference to the persons foreknown by God; proorizo has special reference to that to which the subjects of His foreknowledge are “predestinated.” See FOREKNOW, A and B.