“For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.”
They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen. — the prayer affirms God's sovereignty over history: what happened (crucifixion, trial) was decided (horizō, determine, appoint, decide) beforehand by God's power and will. The paradox of divine sovereignty and human guilt is affirmed: the opposition was real and culpable, but also within God's plan. This is not fatalism but faith that God overrules human opposition.
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