Definitionn. knowledge of an event before it occurs
Last update: August 4, 2015
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The fifth and last book takes up the question of man's free will and God's foreknowledge, and, by an exposition of the nature of God, attempts to show that these doctrines are not subversive of each other; and the conclusion is drawn that God remains a foreknowing spectator of all events, and the ever-present eternity of his vision agrees with the future quality of our actions, dispensing rewards to the good and punishments to the wicked. [Please select]
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Closely connected with these were predestination and grace, and then "fixed fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute." [Please select]
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Did some strange gleam of foreknowledge fall for a moment across her mirth-making. [Please select]
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Did she divine, by some supernatural foreknowledge, that this face held the secret of her destiny. [Please select]
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"His mother trained him as if with a foreknowledge of that star-like ascendency." [Please select]
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On June 1 Morton was tried for guilty foreknowledge of Darnley's death. [Please select]
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In this relieving greatness is, perhaps, dim foreknowledge of what is to come. [Please select]
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There was a foreknowledge of death in his eyes. [Please select]
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Yet their actions, the pains they take, and the importance they evidently attach to these matters, prove that they have a foreknowledge of the future: this knowledge therefore can only be an unconscious clairvoyance. [Please select]
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The sleeping world and the sea, and, as Rosamund had said, "what surrounds and permeates us and all this" seemed to permit him mysteriously to get at that one bit of foreknowledge. [Please select]
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