Acts 2:38

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed May 3 14:26:02 EDT 2000


At 2:20 PM -0500 5/3/00, Ron Tyson wrote:
>Carl,
>   I really appreciate your reply.  It is the shift to the second person
>plural (UMWN) that concerns me.  It makes me wonder if the remission of
>sins is to be taken with BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS.  It agrees perfectly with the
>second plural of METANOHSATE rather than with BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS.  Do you
>follow me?

Yes, but don't forget that the hEKASTOS is followed by the partitive hUMWN:
repent, each and all, be baptized, each and all, become part, each and all,
of the new human family.

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Carl W. Conrad
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