Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.
Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world. This is the reading of the majority of manuscripts; though a very ancient reading (adopted by Tischendorf and most critics after him, except Lachmann) closes (Acts 15:17) thus: 'saith the Lord, who doeth these things, known from the beginning of the world,' or, 'from, of old'-omitting the rest of Acts 15:18 х gnoosta (G1110) ap' (G575) aioonos (G165)]. The sense is the same; and the point of the statement is, that as it had been all along the purpose of God to reconstruct the decayed Jewish Church on a wider basis than before-embracing all believing Gentile-so He had given abundant notice of this in the writings of the prophets; and since Himself was to the sole Doer of these things, He was only now doing what it was from the first in His mind to do, and thus it was no novelty.