The omniscient God-man here asserts the existence of graces which remained inefficacious in Corozain and Bethsaida, though had they been given to the inhabitants of Tyre and Sidon, they would have proved effective.
Consequently, when God, in the light of this eternal foreknowledge, actually bestows a grace, this grace will prove efficacious or inefficacious according as He has foreknown whether the will will give or withhold its consent.
Consequently, one and the same grace may be efficacious in one case and inefficacious in another.
The proffered grace remained inefficacious simply because the sinner rejected it of his own free will.
Consequently, there can be no efficacious prayer without prevenient grace, and purely natural prayer is inefficacious for salvation.
Side-note: Continuous discourse, either written or spoken, inefficacious as a means of instruction to the ignorant.
With these circumstances others have combined to render the embargo inefficacious as yet, or at least to prevent it from having its full effect.
Before the restrictive system, which, however well meant by many, has proved so inefficacious and ruinous, we had in this country a system of commercial morals, of which we had much reason to boast.
But the distinction is not always observed, nor can it be; for we can not always know whether means are inefficacious till experiment has proved them ineffectual.
The authority of Parliament must becomeinefficacious .
Note: Ineffectual, says Johnson, rather denotes an actual failure, and inefficacious and habitual impotence to any effect.
In the latter, the exclusion would be inefficaciousfor the only end it could be intended for, viz.
