Acts Chapter 4 verse 28 Holy Bible
to do whatsoever thy hand and thy council foreordained to come to pass.
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To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.
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to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.
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For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
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to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
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to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - To do for for to do, A.V.; foreordained to come to pass for determined before to be done, A.V. To do (for the sentiment, comp. Acts 2:23; Acts 3:18). They were gathered together for the purpose of executing, their own will, as they thought, but really to fulfil the purpose of God (see also Isaiah 10:5-15; Isaiah 37:26, 27). See here the comfort to the Church of looking upon God as the δεσπότης of the whole earth.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(28) To do whatsoever thy hand. . . .--The great problem of the relation of the divine purpose to man's free agency is stated (as before in Acts 1:16; Acts 2:23), without any attempt at a philosophical solution. No such solution is indeed possible. If we admit a Divine Will at all, manifesting itself in the government of the world, in the education of man kind, in the salvation of individual souls, we must follow the example of the Apostle, and hold both the facts of which consciousness and experience bear their witness, without seeking for a logical formula of reconciliation. In every fact of history, no less than in the great fact of which St. Peter speaks, the will of each agent is free, and he stands or falls by the part he has taken in it; and yet the outcome of the whole works out some law of evolution, some "increasing purpose," which we recognise as we look back on the course of the events, the actors in which were impelled by their own base or noble aims, their self-interest or their self-devotion. As each man looks back on his own life he traces a sequence visiting him with a righteous retribution, and leading him, whether he obeyed the call, or resisted it, to a higher life, an education no less than a probation. "Man proposes, God disposes." "God works in us, therefore we must work." Aphorisms such as these are the nearest approximation we can make to a practical; though not a theoretical, solution of the great mystery.
