Definition of "foreordained" [foreordained]

• Simple past tense and past participle of foreordain. (verb)

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• "See especially Rom. 3: 25; and note the marginal rendering -- "foreordained" -- making the passage read: "Whom God hath foreordained to be a propitiation.""
• "It is hidden before it is brought forward, and when it is brought forward it still remains hidden to those that are imperfect [Bengel]. ordained -- literally, "foreordained" (compare 1Co 2: 9), "prepared for them that love Him." before the world -- rather, "before the ages" (of time), that is, from eternity."
• "As Israel's redemption from Egypt required the blood of the paschal lamb, so our redemption from sin and the curse required the blood of Christ; "foreordained" (1Pe 1: 20) from eternity, as the passover lamb was taken up on the tenth day of the month."