In short, if one can foreknow what a comparison will reveal, telepathy before the comparison is unproven.
He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.
Much more therefore can men foreknow the future that concerns themselves, and of such things is prophecy.
But men by natural inclination seek toforeknow future events; and this belongs to divination.
Therefore if anyone presume to foreknow or foretell such like future things by any means whatever, except by divine revelation, he manifestly usurps what belongs to God.
Now one makes use of a vain and false opinion if, by observing the stars, one desires to foreknow the future that cannot be forecast by their means.
According to this it might be said that men, whose souls are not much obscured through union with the body, are able to foreknow such like future things by their own knowledge.
Much more therefore can a man naturally foreknow the future.
In one way that the soul, from that which it holds, is able to foreknow the future, and thus Augustine says (Gen.
Either God cannot foreknow acts of Will, or they are necessary.
But we reply that to foreknow how a moral being will act is no more impossible than to know how a moral being in given circumstances would act.
But God cannot foreknow actualities unless he has by his decree made them to be certainties of the future.
Another statement is therefore proposed to meet these difficulties, namely, that God may foreknow free acts:-- 2.
If God cannot foreknow free human acts, then "the Lamb that hath been slain from the foundation of the world" (Rev.
He cannot foreknow that which is not there to be foreknown.
Surely God did not foreknow that Adam would exist and sin, whether God determined to create him or not.
For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.
Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?
For they foreknow many things that are to come, and because of this they are wont to give some responses.
Is it then unlikely that the Being who was able to overcome the greater difficulty, and create a free man, should also be able to overcome the lesser difficulty, and foreknowhow he would act?
In the same way, in human affairs it is possible in some cases, and to some extent, to foreknow what a man will do, but without in any way compelling him to do it.
So that in some cases, and under given conditions, it does not seem impossible for a man to foreknow how another man will act, yet without interfering with his freedom.
Never being sure of these, I cannot be said to actually foreknow the event; so that foreknowing with man is never more than foreguessing.
The act when it comes is due to my own free will, I merely foreknow what use I will make of my freedom.
For my calling or duty may lead me into the presence of those, that I may foreknow will sin.
And when you foreknow his design, will you let him overcome?
No man loveth the egg aright, who doth not foreknowwhat a bird it will bring forth.
As trying imprisonments, so all other trying injuries are from the devil by God's permission, whoever be his instruments; and will you be overcome by him when you foreknow the end of his attempts?
Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son.
Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the Image of His Son.
I do foreknow the future, hour by hour, Nor can whatever pang may smite me now Smite with surprise.
Hence neither God nor man can foreknow perfectly, at any temporal moment, what a free will agent is yet to do.
Upton, Hibbert Lectures, 306, denies this timeless consciousness even to God, and apparently agrees with Martineau in maintaining that God does not foreknow free human acts.
It is an awful decree, I confess but no one can deny that God foreknew the future final fate of man before he created him, and that he did foreknow it because it was appointed by his own decree.
Again: "The foreknowledge of God will necessarily infer a decree; for God could not foreknowthat things would be, unless he had decreed they should be.
If God should cease to foreknow all future volitions, or if he had never foreknown them, they would, nevertheless, just as certainly and infallibly come to pass, as if he had foreknown them from all eternity.
And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as "necessarily connected with something else that is evident.
It is said, that God could not foreknow all future events, unless he views them as connected with known causes.
Without this assumption it would be impossible in the Thomistic system to find in the absolute will of God an infallible medium by which He can foreknow future sins.
It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.
If, indeed, it was necessary for God to decree an event, in order to foreknow it, this inference might be just.
Oh that God would make us foreknow by a lively faith, what it is to behold him in his glory, and to dwell in perfect love and joy, and then death would no more be able to dismay us, nor should we be unwilling of such a blessed change!
Suppose God either to decree, or but to foreknow the freest, most contingent act, and there will be a logical impossibility in order of consequence, that it should be otherwise than he so decreeth or foreseeth.
And to know when you should reveal it, and when not, you must wisely foreknow which way is like to do more good or harm.
You must foreknowhow that which you take will work, and what will be the effects of it, and not only how it tasteth, if you would escape the pain.
That therefore which we foreknow we must repent of afterwards, should be prevented and avoided by men that choose not shame and sorrow.
And words of truth which we foreknow he will mistake, not by our fault, but by his own, do seem to be less questionable than actions which have a proper tendency to deceive.
You foreknow that you must part with it; and will you now be so glued to it that then it may tear your flesh and heart.
We would not first settle this question of possibility, we would not say that God cannot foreknow except in one particular way, and then proceed to reason from such a postulate against the clearest facts in the universe.
For he who foreknew this did not foreknow nothing.
Moreover, if He who foreknew what would be in the power of our wills did not foreknow nothing, but something, assuredly, even though He did foreknow, there is something in the power of our wills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreknow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
