Holiness is the only evidence of election.- Charles Hodge

If election is to holiness as the apostle here teaches, it follows, first, that individuals, and not communities or nations, are the object of election;secondly that holiness in no form can be the ground of election.If men are chosen to be holy,they cannot be chosen because they are holy.And thirdly,it follows that holiness is the only evidence of election.For one who lives in sin to claim to be elected unto holiness, is a contradiction

-CHARLES HODGE

Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians p.35