Why at Acts 8:17 is elambanon imperfect? Is it because the Spirit never went
away? Or is it because there was more than one Samaritan, and so imparting it
was a process which took place over a period? Or are we reading too much into
the tense?
Alistair Stewart-Sykes
Codrington College, Barbados
(sykes@caribnet.net)