[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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