Acts 4:28

ποιῆσαι, infinitive of purpose, see on Acts 3:2; but even this purpose was overruled by God to the accomplishment of His will, cf. Luke 22:22; Luke 24:26, συνῆλθον μὲν γὰρ ἐκεῖνοι ὡς ἐχθροὶ … ἐποίουν δὲ ἃ σὺ ἐβούλου, Oecum. ἡ χείρ σου, a common expression to signify the controlling power of God, cf. in the N.T. (peculiar to St. Luke's Gospel and the Acts) the phrases χεὶρ Κυρίου, Luke 1:66; Acts 11:21; Acts 13:11. ἡ βουλὴ : only used by St. Luke, cf. Luke 7:30; Acts 2:23; Acts 13:36; Acts 20:27. προώρισε : only in St. Luke and St. Paul, but never in LXX or Apocrypha, Romans 8:29-30; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Ephesians 1:5; Acts 1:11, but the thought which it contains is in striking harmony with St. Peter's words elsewhere; cf. Acts 2:23; Acts 10:42, and 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Peter 1:20; 1 Peter 2:4-6 see above on Peter's speeches cf. Ignat., Ephes., tit. ἡ χείρ connected with β. by Zeugma, since only βουλή directly suits the verb; cf. 1 Corinthians 3:2, and Luke 1:64. (The two verses (Acts 4:27-28) are referred by Hilgenfeld to the “author to Theophilus”. In his view there is a want of fitness in introducing into the Church's prayer the words of the Psalm, and their reference to the closing scenes of the life of Jesus; he thinks with Weiss that in the αὐτῶν of Acts 4:29 there is quite sufficient reference to the words of the Psalm.)