单词 | non-elect |
释义 | non-electadj.n. Chiefly Theology. A. adj. Not chosen by God for salvation. Cf. non-elected adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > salvation, redemption > [adjective] > saved > not non-elect1646 unelected1836 1646 R. Maton Answ. Petrie's Pref. in Israel's Redemption Redeemed sig. B3v The elect Jewes, you say, did not rest upon the Mosaicall types, neither doubtlesse did all the non elect Jewes rest upon them. 1695 E. Polhill Divine Will Considered (ed. 2) 94 The perfection of the Non-elect Angels was truly ordinated to their Perseverance, but not infallibly. a1833 R. Watson Theol. Inst. (1850) p. lvii Sufficient means of salvation were left to the non-elect Gentiles. 1968 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 55 510 Among those well-to-do non-church members were many of the non-elect children of the colony's political and religious elite. 1988 Heritage Found. Policy Rev. (Nexis) Fall 44 The Massachusetts churches had been too lax in admitting ‘non-elect’ people. B. n. With the: the class of people who are not chosen; spec. the class of those not chosen by God for salvation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > reprobation > [adjective] > affected by unsalveda1240 damned1393 reprobate?a1425 prescit?a1450 losta1533 reprobated1541 condemned1543 unredeemed1548 devoted1611 unsaved1648 non-elect1650 presciteda1660 damning1662 unelected1836 1650 Most Glorious Representation Incomparable Free Grace of Christ 14 The non-elect, and non-redeemed are those to whom the Gospell never came, or was never by them entertained. 1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 36 Never did any of non-elect become elect. 1700 C. Ness Antidote against Arminianism 11 The Lutherans grant..to the Non Elect only a Præscience or Naked Fore-sight. 1820 J. Keats Lamia ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 27 A doubtful tale from faery land, Hard for the non-elect to understand. 1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects at Calvinists Both the elect and non-elect come into the world in a state of total depravity and alienation from God. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 16 696 If some did not take advantage of this [means of grace], they were cheerfully dismissed by being consigned to the category of..the ‘non-elect’. 1954 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 14 115 With the admission of the nonelect..the entire struggle was a hopeless one. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 May 55/2 The bad is its correlate—everlasting torment of the non-elect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1646 |
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