“Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”
And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified. — The chain continues: προορίζω (proorídzō, "predestined") → καλέω (kaleō, "called") → δικαιόω (dikaioō, "justified") → δοξάζω (doxázō, "glorified"). The aorist tense throughout (even for "glorified") indicates the certainty of the eschatological outcome from God's perspective. There is no break in the chain; none predestined fall away. The movement is from divine foreknowledge to realized glory.
Church Fathers on Romans 8:30
“Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also justified.” Now He justified them by the regeneration of the laver. “And whom He justified, them He also glorified” by the gift, by the adoption.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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