According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
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Jerome
AD 420
Paul, wishing to show that God made all things out of nothing, ascribed to him not the “composition,” the “creation” or the “making” but the katabol&#;, that is, the inception of the foundation. .