[[7]] See Matt. xiii. 14, 15; Mark iv. 12; John xii. 40.
[[8]] Cf. vol. i. p. 75.
[[9]] On the meaning of divine foreknowledge in St. Paul see vol. i. p. 317.
[[10]] See Joseph. Antiq. xiii. 5, 9; xviii. 1, 3; Bell. Jud. ii. 8, 14. Cf. Schürer, Jewish People (English trans.), Div. ii. vol. ii. pp.14 ff.; James and Ryle, Ps. of Solomon, p. 96. The Essenes, Josephus says, believed in fate, and not in free-will; the Sadducees in free-will and not in fate; but the Pharisees in both. No doubt Josephus is importing Greek philosophical views into his account of Jewish parties, but substantially his account is probably true.
[[11]] e.g. Isa. xix. 24; Ezek. xvi. 55. (The exaltation into the fellowship of the chosen people of Egypt, Assyria, Sodom, and Samaria.)
[[12]] Isa. vi. 13.