25. Whom God hath set forth. Margin, Fore-ordained (προέθετο). The word properly means, to place in public view; to exhibit in a conspicuous situation, as goods are exhibited or exposed for sale, or as premiums or rewards of victory were exhibited to public view in the games of the Greeks. It sometimes has the meaning of decreeing, purposing, or constituting, as in the margin (comp. Rom. 1:13; Eph. 1:9); and many have supposed that this is its meaning here. But the connection seems to require the