FORWARDNESS (fOr'wErd-nes).
1. Gr. Erovah,spoo-day', literally haste, and gen erally of earnestness in accomplishing (2 Cor. viii:8; in ver. 7 " diligence ").
2. Gr. lipothwta, proth-oo-me'ah (2 Cor. ix :2; R. X'. " rea dint.ss"), I itera I predisposition. FOUNDATION (foun-da'shfin I. The lower part of any structure, as of a house, wall, mountain. etc., which supports the rest (Ezra iv :12; 2 Sam. xxii :t6; Deut. xxxii :22).
2. The beginning of a thing; thus, the founda tion of the world denotes the beginning of it (Matt. xiii :35).
FiguratiVe. (z) Christ is a foundation; on his person, office and work is h:s church, and the whole of our salvation erected and supported (Is. xxviii Cor. ; Matt. xvi :z8). (2) He is likened to twelve foundotions of precious stones ; he is infinitely precious, adapted to every case, and exhibited in the doctrine of his twelve apostles (Rev. xxi :14, 19, 2o). (3) God's truths, puh lished by the prophets and apostles, are a founda tion; on them the saints found their faith and hope (Eph. ii :2o). (4) The first principles of Divine truth ale a foundation, as they ought to be first known, in order to understand the rest, which depend on them (Heb. vi :1, 2). (5) Teaching these Divine truths is called a foundotion. (6) Paul studied so to preach Christ as not to build on another man's foundation; i.e., to preach Christ
where nobody had before taught the first princi ples of Christianity (Rom. xv :2o). (7) Magis trates, and the principal constitutions of their gov ernment. are the foundations of a state that support and establish the rest (Ps. lxxxii :5 and xi:3; Mic. vi :2). (8) The righteous are an everlasting foun dation; being fixed in Christ, their persons, and holy and happy state and condition, are stable and fixed, and they are great means of supporting and establishing nations and churches (Eph. ii :2o). They lay up a good foundation for the time to come ; the good foundation they lay up is the heav enly glory itself, which is fixed and stable, and on that account is called a city having foundations (i Tim. vi :19; Heb. xi :to). (9) The founda tion of God that standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his, e., the fundamental truths of the gospel, that cannot be overthrown ; or the saints themselves, divinely fixed in their new covenant state (2 Tim. ii :19). (to) The foundations or pillars of heaven are the mountains on which the skies seem to rest (2 Sam. xxii :8).