Elect
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ELECT or ELECTION: (See PREDESTINATION.)
(1) Chosen to office (Act_9:15; Joh_6:70; 1Sa_10:24). ELECTION
(2) of Israel in the Old Testament as a nation, and of the visible Christian church, to spiritual privileges (Isa_45:4; Isa_44:1; 2Jn_1:3; 1Pe_5:18).
(3) Of Israel to temporal blessings in their own land, both formerly (Deu_7:6) and hereafter (Isa_65:9-22).
(4) Of saints, individually and personally, (Mat_20:16; Joh_6:44; Act_22:14) before the foundation of the world: to adoption (Eph_1:5); salvation, not without faith and holiness, but "through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth," for He who chose the end chose also the means (2Th_2:13); conformity to Christ (Rom_8:29); good works (Eph_2:10); spiritual warfare (2Ti_2:4); eternal glory (Rom_9:23). He chooses not merely character's, but individuals to whom He gives the needful characteristics, faith and obedience (Act_5:31; Eph_2:8), and writes them in the book of life (Luk_10:20; Php_4:3; Joh_6:37; Joh_6:40). Believers may know it (1Th_1:4).
Exemplified in Isaac (Gen_21:12); Abraham (Neh_9:7; Hag_2:23); the apostles (Joh_13:18; Joh_15:16; Joh_15:19); Jacob (Rom_9:12-13); Paul (Gal_1:15). God's "grace was given in Christ Jesus (to the elect) before the world began" (2Ti_1:9). Its source is God's grace, independent of any goodness foreseen in the saved (Eph_1:4-5; Rom_9:11; Rom_9:18; Rom_11:5). The analogy of God's providence in this life choosing all our circumstances and final destination, and numbering the very hairs of our heads, illustrates the same method in His moral government (compare Joh_17:24; Act_13:48; Rom_8:28-30; 1Th_5:9; 2Ti_2:10; 1Pe_1:2).
The election being entirely of grace, not for our foreseen works (Rom_11:6), the glory all redounds to God. The elect are given by the Father to Jesus as the fruit of His obedience unto death (Isa_53:10), that obedience itself being a grand part of the foreordained plan. Such a truth realized fills the heart with love and gratitude to God, humbling self, and "drawing up the mind to high and heavenly things" (Church of England, Article 17). Yet men are throughout Scripture treated as responsible, capable of will and choice. Christ died sufficiently for all, efficiently for the elect (1Ti_4:10; 1Jn_2:2). The lost will lay all the blame of their perdition on themselves because "they would not come to Jesus that they might have life"; the saved will ascribe all the praise of their salvation to God alone (Rev_1:5; Mat_22:12).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ē̇-lekt?: That is, ?chosen,? ?selected.? In the Old Testament the word represents derivatives of בּחר, bā̄ḥar, elegit; in the New Testament ἐκλεκτός, eklektóš. It means properly an object or objects of selection. This primary meaning sometimes passes into that of ?eminent,? ?valuable,? ?choice?; often Thus as a fact, in places where the King James Version uses ?chosen? (or ?elect?) to translate the original (e.g. Isa_42:1; 1Pe_2:6). In the King James Version ?elect? (or ?chosen?) is used of Israel as the race selected for special favor and to be the special vehicle of Divine purposes (so 4 times in Apocrypha, Tobit and Ecclus); of the great Servant of Yahweh (compare Luk_23:35; the ?Christ of God, his chosen?); compare eminent saints as Jacob, Moses, Rufus (Rom_16:13); ?the lady,? and her ?sister? of 2 Jn; of the holy angels (1Ti_5:21); with a possible suggestion of the lapse of other angels. Otherwise, and prevalently in the New Testament, it denotes a human community, also described as believers, saints, the Israel of God; regarded as in some sense selected by Him from among men, objects of His special favor, and correspondingly called to special holiness and service. See further under ELECTION. In the English versions ?elect? is not used as a verb: ?to choose? is preferred; e.g. Mar_13:20; Eph_1:4.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Elect
a term sometimes applied in the ancient Church
(1) to the whole body of baptized Christians, who were called ἄγιοι, ἐκλεκτοί, saints, elect;
(2) to the highest class of catechumens elected to baptism;
(3) at other times to the newly baptized, as especially admitted to the full privileges of their profession, and sometimes called the perfect.
Ascetics, who at one time were considered the most eminent of Christian professors, were called the elect of the elect. Bingham, Orig. Ecclesiastes book 10, chapter 2, § 5. SEE CATECHUMENS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
(1) Chosen to office (Act_9:15; Joh_6:70; 1Sa_10:24). ELECTION
(2) of Israel in the Old Testament as a nation, and of the visible Christian church, to spiritual privileges (Isa_45:4; Isa_44:1; 2Jn_1:3; 1Pe_5:18).
(3) Of Israel to temporal blessings in their own land, both formerly (Deu_7:6) and hereafter (Isa_65:9-22).
(4) Of saints, individually and personally, (Mat_20:16; Joh_6:44; Act_22:14) before the foundation of the world: to adoption (Eph_1:5); salvation, not without faith and holiness, but "through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth," for He who chose the end chose also the means (2Th_2:13); conformity to Christ (Rom_8:29); good works (Eph_2:10); spiritual warfare (2Ti_2:4); eternal glory (Rom_9:23). He chooses not merely character's, but individuals to whom He gives the needful characteristics, faith and obedience (Act_5:31; Eph_2:8), and writes them in the book of life (Luk_10:20; Php_4:3; Joh_6:37; Joh_6:40). Believers may know it (1Th_1:4).
Exemplified in Isaac (Gen_21:12); Abraham (Neh_9:7; Hag_2:23); the apostles (Joh_13:18; Joh_15:16; Joh_15:19); Jacob (Rom_9:12-13); Paul (Gal_1:15). God's "grace was given in Christ Jesus (to the elect) before the world began" (2Ti_1:9). Its source is God's grace, independent of any goodness foreseen in the saved (Eph_1:4-5; Rom_9:11; Rom_9:18; Rom_11:5). The analogy of God's providence in this life choosing all our circumstances and final destination, and numbering the very hairs of our heads, illustrates the same method in His moral government (compare Joh_17:24; Act_13:48; Rom_8:28-30; 1Th_5:9; 2Ti_2:10; 1Pe_1:2).
The election being entirely of grace, not for our foreseen works (Rom_11:6), the glory all redounds to God. The elect are given by the Father to Jesus as the fruit of His obedience unto death (Isa_53:10), that obedience itself being a grand part of the foreordained plan. Such a truth realized fills the heart with love and gratitude to God, humbling self, and "drawing up the mind to high and heavenly things" (Church of England, Article 17). Yet men are throughout Scripture treated as responsible, capable of will and choice. Christ died sufficiently for all, efficiently for the elect (1Ti_4:10; 1Jn_2:2). The lost will lay all the blame of their perdition on themselves because "they would not come to Jesus that they might have life"; the saved will ascribe all the praise of their salvation to God alone (Rev_1:5; Mat_22:12).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
ē̇-lekt?: That is, ?chosen,? ?selected.? In the Old Testament the word represents derivatives of בּחר, bā̄ḥar, elegit; in the New Testament ἐκλεκτός, eklektóš. It means properly an object or objects of selection. This primary meaning sometimes passes into that of ?eminent,? ?valuable,? ?choice?; often Thus as a fact, in places where the King James Version uses ?chosen? (or ?elect?) to translate the original (e.g. Isa_42:1; 1Pe_2:6). In the King James Version ?elect? (or ?chosen?) is used of Israel as the race selected for special favor and to be the special vehicle of Divine purposes (so 4 times in Apocrypha, Tobit and Ecclus); of the great Servant of Yahweh (compare Luk_23:35; the ?Christ of God, his chosen?); compare eminent saints as Jacob, Moses, Rufus (Rom_16:13); ?the lady,? and her ?sister? of 2 Jn; of the holy angels (1Ti_5:21); with a possible suggestion of the lapse of other angels. Otherwise, and prevalently in the New Testament, it denotes a human community, also described as believers, saints, the Israel of God; regarded as in some sense selected by Him from among men, objects of His special favor, and correspondingly called to special holiness and service. See further under ELECTION. In the English versions ?elect? is not used as a verb: ?to choose? is preferred; e.g. Mar_13:20; Eph_1:4.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Elect
a term sometimes applied in the ancient Church
(1) to the whole body of baptized Christians, who were called ἄγιοι, ἐκλεκτοί, saints, elect;
(2) to the highest class of catechumens elected to baptism;
(3) at other times to the newly baptized, as especially admitted to the full privileges of their profession, and sometimes called the perfect.
Ascetics, who at one time were considered the most eminent of Christian professors, were called the elect of the elect. Bingham, Orig. Ecclesiastes book 10, chapter 2, § 5. SEE CATECHUMENS.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.
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