[B-Greek] The adjective in Acts 2:38

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 4 17:15:24 EDT 2003


At 3:57 PM -0500 9/4/03, Herb Torres wrote:
>Is the adjective "hekostos" in Acts 2:38 functioning substantivally since it
>is not modiying any noun?
>
>Also if that is the case wouldn't that connect it with the verb "be
>baptized"?

(a) Properly speaking, hEKASTOS is a pronoun rather than an adjective; it
will of course function as a noun functions (by definition);
(b) hEKASTOS is indeed the subject of BAPTISQHTW.
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