For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done - meaning, 'to do what His counsel determined to be done by His hand,' a well-understood colloquialism, like that of Acts 14:17. On the mysterious concurrence, here so distinctly expressed, of a voluntary combination of human parties against the Lord Jesus, and the purpose of God from eternity in that death, see the note at Acts 2:23, and Remark 2, at the close of that Section.