[B-Greek] 3rd person passive imperative
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Aug 29 12:25:25 EDT 2003
At 9:59 AM -0500 8/29/03, Herb Torres wrote:
>I have been looking at Acts 2:38 and I am not sure how to translate the 3rd
>person passive imperative. How can a person stress the "3rd person"? I have
>seen translations such as "Let each one..." yet this simply stresses the
>singular. How can one ephasize the 3rd person?
You are missing the partitive genitive hUMWN that follows the hEKASTOS in
the text: BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS hUMWN: "let each one (individually) of you
(i.e. of all of you) be baptized." There's no problem in the text, which
began with the plural imperative METANOHSATE addressed to all generally and
then went on to the requirement of baptism, which is something that
obviously must be done individually but still with that genitive hUMWN is
inclusive of all who were told to repent.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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