Acts 2.37 - AKOUSANTES
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Sep 16 06:49:03 EDT 2002
At 12:28 AM -0700 9/16/02, Dr. John S. Waldrip wrote:
>B-Greekers
>
>I can't find anyone who addresses the implications of AKOUSANTES in Acts
>2.37 except the old Puritan, Thomas Hooker.
>
>Does this aorist active participle justify suggesting a period of time
>passing between Peter's Pentecost sermon and KATENUGNHSAN as he
>suggests?
AKOUSANTES DE KATENUGHSAN THN KARDIAN EIPON TE PROS TON PETRON KAI TOUS
LOIPOUS APOSTOLOUS: "TIS POIHSWMEN, ANDRES ADELFOI?"
I think you're asking of this text more than it can tell us. The aorist
participle indicates only that the reaction referred to in KATENUGHSAN
followed upon the hearing, not by what interval it followed.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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