Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.
Even so, Father; for so it seemed good, х eudokia (G2107)] - the emphatic and chosen term for expressing any object of divine complacency; whether Christ Himself (see the note at Matthew 3:17) or God's gracious eternal arrangements (see the note at Philippians 2:13) --
In thy sight. This is just a sublime echo of the foregoing words; as if Jesus, when He uttered them, had paused to reflect on it, and as if the glory of it-not so much in the light of its own reasonableness as of God's absolute will that so it should be-had filled His soul.