preponderance of exegetical authority is in favor of such an interpretation as we have here given: “The best commentators, ancient and modern, are mostly agreed that προέγνω is to be understood of prescience of character; and προώρισε of determination founded on such prescience.”1 The second text that we had in view is in these words: “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto