[B-Greek] Acts 16:34

Harold R. Holmyard III hholmyard at ont.com
Thu Jul 1 20:24:26 EDT 2004


Dear Craig,

>KAI HGALLIASATO PANOIKI PEPISTEUKWS TW QEW
>
>In KJV it renders this 'and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.'
>
>In this sense, it puts PANOIKI with PEPISTEUKWS. Is it possible to translate
>it 'and rejoiced with all his house, believing in God', instead putting
>PANOIKI with HGALLIASATO? Ie does it necessarily mean that all his house
>believed?

HH: The previous verse tells you that his 
household believed, because they would not 
otherwise have been baptized.

Here is what A. T. Robertson said:
http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentaries/

With all his house (panoikei). Adverb, once in 
Plato, though usually panoikiai. In LXX, but here 
alone in the N.T. It is in an amphibolous 
position and can be taken either with "rejoiced" 
(hgalliasato) or "having believed" (pepisteukwß, 
perfect active participle, permanent belief), 
coming between them. The whole household (family, 
warden, slaves) heard the word of God, believed 
in the Lord Jesus, made confession, were 
baptized, and rejoiced.

HH: Parsons and Culy in their commentary on Acts 
put PANOIKEI with "believed." So does the recent 
HCSB translation. It seems to make a little more 
sense to me that way.

					Yours,
					Harold Holmyard


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