Annotation CCLXX

”But when it pleased him who separated me,” etc. — Galatians 1:15

Election and reprobation from merits.

Jerome, [in] the book on the epistle to the Galatians, [chapter] 1, upon these words, seems to hold that God neither chooses nor reprobates anyone except from the foreknowledge of merits, saying: “This comes to pass from the foreknowledge of God, that whom he knows [will be] just in the future, he loves before he rises from the womb: and whom he hates [as] a sinner before he sins — not that [there be iniquity] in [his] love,” etc. See above, Annotation 251.