Romans St. Andrew's Expositional Commentary by R. C. Sproul
The word predestinate in the Greek text also contains the prefix pro-. The word is proorizo, which means, according to the Greek lexicons, “a sovereign determination in which a fixed or definite limit is sovereignly decreed.” So, as the English word suggests, there is a destiny for certain people that God, from the foundation of the world, has established. He has fixed it. He has determined it according to the sovereign good pleasure of his will. Nowhere in Scripture is a foreseen, conditional, human response ever given as the rationale for the eternal decree by which God fixes for all eternity those whom he ordains and chooses for redemption. – p.289
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