Act 2:23, Rom 11:2 | JFB | STEP | 23. determinate counsel and foreknowledge —God's fixed plan and perfect foresight of all the steps involved in it. ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain —How strikingly is the criminality of Christ's murderers here presented in harmony with the eternal purpose to surrender Him into their hands!

Acts 2:23

23. determinate counsel and foreknowledge—God's fixed plan and perfect foresight of all the steps involved in it.

ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain—How strikingly is the criminality of Christ's murderers here presented in harmony with the eternal purpose to surrender Him into their hands!

Romans 11:2

2-4. God hath—"did"

not cast away his people—that is, wholly

which he foreknew—On the word "foreknew," see on Ro 8:29.

Wot—that is, "Know"

ye not that the scripture saith of—literally, "in," that is, in the section which relates to

Elias? how he maketh intercession—"pleadeth"

against Israel—(The word "saying," which follows, as also the particle "and" before "digged down," should be omitted, as without manuscript authority).