1 Peter 1:20

“Who verily was foreordained, etc.] Or “foreknown”; that is, by God; and which intends, not barely his prescience of Christ, of what he should be, do, and suffer; but such a previous knowledge of him, which is joined with love and affection to him; not merely as his own Son, and the express image of his person, but as Mediator; and whom he loved before the world was, and with a love of complacency and delight, and which will last for ever. It includes the choice of him as the head of the election, and the pre-ordination of his human nature, to the grace of union to his divine Person, and the pre-appointment of him to various things. The Syriac version adds, “to this”; that is, to be the lamb…”

“God's eternal foreordination of Christ's redeeming sacrifice, and completion of it in these last times for us, are an additional obligation on us to our maintaining a holy walk, considering how great things have been thus done for us. Peter's language in the history corresponds with this here: an undesigned coincidence and mark of genuineness. Redemption was no afterthought, or remedy of an unforeseen evil, devised at the time of its arising. God's foreordaining of the Redeemer refutes the slander that, on the Christian theory, there is a period of four thousand years of nothing but an incensed God. God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4). manifest--in His…”

“Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world - That is, it was foreordained, or predetermined, that he should be the great stoning Sacrifice for sin. On the meaning of the word “foreordained,” (προγινώσκω proginōskō,) see Romans 8:29. The word is rendered which knew, Acts 26:5; foreknew and foreknow, Romans 8:29; Romans 11:2; foreordained, 1 Peter 1:20; and know before, 2 Peter 2:17. It does not elsewhere occur in the New Testament. The sense is, that the plan was formed, and the arrangements made for the atonement, before the world was created. Before the foundation of the world - That is, from eternity. It was before man was formed; before the earth was made; before…”

“1:20 With Christ’s coming, Old Testament promises of redemption are being fulfilled and the last days have begun.”

“verily: Gen 3:15; Pro 8:23; Mic 5:2; Rom 3:25, Rom 16:25, Rom 16:26; Eph 1:4, Eph 3:9, Eph 3:11; Col 1:26; Ti2 1:9, Ti2 1:10; Tit 1:2, Tit 1:3; Rev 13:8 but: Act 3:25, Act 3:26; Col 1:26; Jo1 1:2, Jo1 3:5, Jo1 3:8, Jo1 4:9, Jo1 4:10 in: Gal 4:4; Eph 1:10; Heb 1:2, Heb 9:26 1 Peter 1:21”