Acts 19:2 aorist participle

dixonps at juno.com dixonps at juno.com
Mon Mar 12 00:05:04 EST 2001




On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 05:51:28 -0600 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> At 4:49 PM -0800 3/9/01, dixonps at juno.com wrote:

> Paul, I may be wrong, but I frankly believe that KJV's
> "since" here has the sense of "because" rather than
>  "more recently than." 

If PISTEUSANTES is causal, then Paul is assuming they had received the
Holy Spirit and is merely asking how that happened.  Their response seems
to militate against that interpretation, "No, we have not even heard
whether there is a Holy Spirit." 

Doesn't this suggest they understood Paul to be asking if they had
received the Holy Spirit either when they believed, or since they
believed?

Paul Dixon



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