[B-Greek] Acts 16:34
craig
newsgroupstuff at swiftdsl.com.au
Fri Jul 2 02:19:06 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.
Yes, well I guess that conclusion has to do with a prior theological
commitment :-)
(eg I suppose a paedo-baptist could say it makes sense to go with
HGALLIASATO, in that the whole household rejoiced, and that all were
baptised on the basis of the belief of the head of the household, not
necessarily their own personal belief.)
But I guess your quotation from Robertson indicates that it can go either
way.
Actually, just looked at my Bruce commentary (guess I should have before!),
and he says:
"Here the adverb may be taken grammatically with either HGALLIASATO or
PEPISTEUKWS; in sense it probably goes with both."
Thanks!
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
> Here is what A. T. Robertson said:
> http://bible.crosswalk.com/Commentar> ies/
>
> 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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