Acts 2:38 -- umwn

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Tue May 2 19:40:23 EDT 2000


Dear Ron,
     You write:

>Perhaps someone can help me with Acts 2:38.  I have read all the
>correspondence on this subject from 1997.  However, I didn't find anything
>dealing with the last word of the verse--UMWN.  Is there any significance
>in the fact that it is UMWN instead of AUTOU, which would agree with
>EKASTOS?  If anyone can give me some insight, please do.

     Perhaps you do not mean the last word of the verse. I think that a
grammarian would classify EKASTOS UMWN as involving a partitive genitive.
We do the same thing in English: "Let each of you be baptized." "Each" is
the subject of the verb, and "each" is a part of the larger whole, "you."
Does this answer the question?

				Yours,
				Harold Holmyard





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