Postulasagan 15:18

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Acts 17:26, Numbers 23:19, Isaiah 41:22, Isaiah 41:23, Isaiah 44:7, Isaiah 46:9, Isaiah 46:10, Matthew 13:35, Matthew 25:34, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 1:11, Ephesians 3:9, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 1 Peter 1:20, Revelation 13:8, Revelation 17:8

Reciprocal: Job 28:23 - General Psalms 33:11 - all generations Isaiah 41:4 - calling Isaiah 42:9 - new things Isaiah 48:5 - even Jeremiah 32:17 - there Daniel 5:26 - God Daniel 10:21 - I will Zechariah 8:20 - there Zechariah 14:7 - which Malachi 1:11 - my name John 6:64 - For Acts 2:23 - being Acts 18:10 - for Romans 3:25 - set forth Romans 4:17 - calleth Romans 11:2 - which he foreknew 2 Timothy 1:9 - before Titus 1:2 - before

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Known unto God are all his works,.... These are the words of James, and not of Amos; all the things which God does in the church and in the world, they were all foreknown and predetermined by him: from the beginning of the world; or from eternity; even all his works of creation, providence and grace: the Alexandrian copy, and Beza's most ancient copy, and the Vulgate Latin version, read in the singular number, "his work"; the work of the conversion of the Gentiles; this was fixed and resolved on by God in eternity; he knew it would be, because he had determined it should be; and accordingly he foretold it, and spoke of it in various periods of time before it came to pass; and therefore it should not be looked upon as some new and strange thing, that was never known, spoken or heard of: and this holds true of every other work of God, and agrees with what the Jews sometimes say z, that

"every work which is renewed in the world, the holy blessed God has commanded (or ordered) it from the day the world was created.''

z Zohar in Exod. fol. 78. 2. Vid. ib. in Lev. fol. 25. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Known unto God ... - See the notes on Acts 1:24. The meaning of this verse, in this connection, is this. God sees everything future; he knows what he will accomplish; he has a plan; all his works are so arranged in his mind that he sees everything distinctly and clearly. As he foretold these, it was a part of his plan; and as it was a part of his plan long since foretold, it should not be opposed and resisted by us.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 15:18. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning — As if he had said, This is not a new counsel of God: he had purposed, from the time he called the Israelites, to make the Gentiles partakers of the same grace and mercy; and ultimately to destroy those rites and ceremonies which separated them from each other. He therefore has sent the Gospel of his Son, proclaiming equally peace to him that is afar off, the Gentiles, and to him that is nigh, the Jews.

The whole of this verse is very dubious: the principal part of it is omitted by the most ancient MSS., and Griesbach has left γνωϚα απ' αιωνος doubtful, and has thrown εϚι τῳ Θεῳ παντα τα εργα αὑτου out of the text. Of the former clause, Professor White, in his Crisews, says, "forsitan delenda," "probably these words should be blotted out." And of the latter clause he says, "certissime delenda," "most assuredly these should be blotted out." Supposing the whole to be genuine, critics have laboured to find out the sense. Some very learned men, and particularly Schleusner, contend that the word γνωϚα, from γινωσκειν, to know, should be understood here in the same sense in which ידא yada is in many parts of the Old Testament, which not only signifies to know, but to approve, love, c. They therefore would translate the passage thus: All the works of God are ever dear unto him. And, if so, consequently we might naturally expect him to be merciful to the Gentiles, as well as to the Jews and the evidence now afforded of the conversion of the Gentiles is an additional proof that all God's works are equally dear to him.