Forelove

To foreknow is to “forelove.” For a reason known only to God he bestows his love on some.

Others, whom God did not choose to forelove and ordain to be saved, were deliberately passed over, and were therefore doomed to destruction; based entirely on God's mysterious, secret will.

[...] that these people never had covenantal relations with him; the Good Shepherd did not know them as his sheep, and they did not know him (John 10:14). Thus, to foreknow is to forelove.

Calvinists generally claim that in these instances God's foreknowledge should be understood as His “forelove.”