forelove

present singular third person foreloves · participle present foreloving · participle past foreloved · past foreloved

1. transitiveTo love beforehand or in advance.

   To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.

   2009, Greg Ogden, Discipleship Essentials

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   Others, whom God did not choose to forelove and ordain to be saved, were deliberately passed over, and were therefore doomed to destruction; based entirely on God's mysterious, secret will.

   2012, Ron Craig, Are Christians Just Saved Sinners? - Page 125

   [...] that these people never had covenantal relations with him; the Good Shepherd did not know them as his sheep, and they did not know him (John 10:14). Thus, to foreknow is to forelove.

   2015, Sam Storms, Kept for Jesus

1. uncountableLove in advance.

   Calvinists generally claim that in these instances God's foreknowledge should be understood as His “forelove.”

   2008, Brad J. Waggoner, E. Ray Clendenen, Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue - Page 211