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Mat 11:26. Ναὶ, yea) Even so. Jesus assents to the good pleasure of the Father. “Even so, oh Father!” is an epitome of filial confession.-ὁ πατήρ is in this passage more significant than πάτερ would have been.[545]-εὐδοκία ἔμπροσθέν Σου, well-pleasing in Thy sight[546]) The will and the intellect of God put forth His decrees. His good pleasure is the highest limit, beyond which we are not permitted to go, in examining the causes of the Divine decrees. Thus presently, concerning the Son, we find the expression, βούληται, may will, Lat. voluerit.
[545] The latter, a simple vocative; the former, in form, a nominative with the article prefixed, in effect, an emphatic vocative of a peculiar character, similar to the analogous ὁ Θεὸς.-(I. B.)
[546] In the original, “Beneplacitum coram Te.” It is difficult to render Beneplacitum in this place so as to show its intimate connection, or rather identity, with “Beneplacitum” a few lines below, where I have rendered it, as elsewhere, good pleasure.-(I. B.)
“Thou, who art the Father” (par excellence).-Ed.