John Gill's Exposition on Acts 15:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Known unto God are all his works, etc.] 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 f745, 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.”

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