ACC ~ Ephesians 1 v5b

DISTINGUISHING GOD’S ANTECEDENT WILL FROM GOD’S CONSEQUENT WILL. CHRYSOSTOM: Everywhere the purposeor good pleasure means God’s antecedent will. Yet there is another will. For God’s first [or antecedent] will is that sinners should not perish. His second or consequent will is that those who become evil should perish. Hence he does not chastise them from necessity but due to their own willing. HOMILY ON EPHESIANS 1.1.5.

GOD’S KNOWLEDGE OF THE NUMBER OF THE ELECT. FULGENTIUS: The eternal firmness and firm eternity of God’s predestinating will consist not only in the ordaining of works. God also knows in advance the number of the elect. No one of that full number may lose his eternal grace, nor may any outside that total attain the gift of eternal salvation. For God, who knows all things before they come to pass, is not confused about the number of the predestined, any more than he doubts the effectiveness of the works he has ordained.ON THE TRUTH OF PREDESTINATION 3.6.

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