A WORD A DAY.
PREDESTINATE. Pronounced pre-des-ti-nate, with first e “quick-long,” as in event, seccnd as in debt, i as in it, a as in late. This word means “to predetermine, to foreordain”; it has a strong theological flavour, and is used principally in a way which credits the Almighty with shaping events according to the divine purpose. "Predestinate” is derived from a combination of the Latin prae, “before,” and destinare, “to destine, determine.” In the eighth chapter of Romans it translates the Greek proorizo, "to mark out in advance,” compounded of pro, ‘Tore, in advance, prior,” and (horizo—note here the root of “horizon”), "to mark out or bound,” and, figuratively, “to appoint, decree, specify.” Example: “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified; and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Bomans 8t -30.)
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Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 6
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144A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21578, 16 December 1931, Page 6
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