fore-approval

plural fore-approvals · alternative foreapproval

1. countableuncountableApproval granted beforehand or in advance.

   The word "foreknow" in the text is significant of fore-approval, fore-delight, fore-love, approbation, and choice.

   1866, George Wyard, Devout and explanatory reflections on important portions of God's Word

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   The "foreknowledge" spoken of is evidently a fore-approval; it denotes the resting of the mind of God beforehand upon the person with complacency and love.

   1874, Edward Hayes Plumptre, The Bible educator, ed. by E.H. Plumptre

   Is it not evident, that his fore-approval, or election, of some to sonship upon earth merely, is a very different thing from his fore-approval, or election, of others to eternal sonship in heaven ?

   1876, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick, The Southern Review

   Hallelujah, God's foreknowledge includes foreapproval, fore-appreciation, foreacknowledgement, foremarrying, and foreordination! Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world.

   1985, Witness Lee, Life-Study of 1 Peter: Messages 1-18