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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Theophylact of Ohrid
Having spoken of the death of Christ, the apostle added to this a word also about the resurrection. For he fears lest the newly converted might incline again toward unbelief because the sufferings of Christ are humiliating. He adds also that the mystery of Christ is not new (for this too disturbs the simple-minded), but from the beginning, before the creation of the world, it was hidden until its proper time. However, it was revealed also to the prophets, who searched into this, as he said a little above. …
Oecumenius
He was indeed predetermined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. Peter connected the death of Christ with the resurrection. …
Clement of Alexandria
"Verily foreknown before the foundation of the world." [1 Peter 1:20] Inasmuch as He was foreknown before every creature, because He was Christ. "But manifested in the last times" by the generation of a body.
Western Saints
Augustine of Hippo
In this redemption, the blood of Christ was given, as it were, as a price for us, by accepting which the devil was not enriched, but bound: that we might be loosened from his bonds, and that he might not with himself involve in the meshes of sins, and so deliver to the destruction of the second and eternal death, any one of those whom Christ, free from all debt, had redeemed by pouring out His own blood unindebtedly; but that they who belong to the grace of Christ, foreknown, and predestinated, and elected before the foundation of …
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