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28. ποιῆσαι, to accomplish. God made the passions, which the enemies of Jesus indulged, to be the instruments for working out His will. So men, when they suppose they are choosing their own way, have the ends thereof shapen by God, ‘rough hew them how they will.’ Their misdeeds are made to execute the will of God, yet they are not on that account exempt from blame.
ἡ χείρ σον. The verb (προώρισεν, = preordained) which follows is due to the intervening noun βουλή = counsel. Such a zeugma is not uncommon. And in χείρ is conveyed the idea of grandeur and majesty, so that the need for a different verb is scarcely felt. For an instance of zeugma, cf. Acta Pauli et Theclæ 43, ᾤκησεν ἐν σπηλαίῳ ἐσθίουσα βοτάνας καὶ ὕδωρ.