[B-Greek] Acts 16,32 & 34
waldo slusher
waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 10:45:09 EST 2004
Eddie:
I really think all that is happening here is that the events are being described via the jailer. What happens to the jailer subsequently happens to his household. He believes; they believe. All of them were therefore baptized.
I think PANOIKEI should be thought of as modifying the clause which both HGALLISASATO and PEPISTEUKWS form. Again, Luke is relating the events through the actions of the jailer, noting that his household follows suit.
Verse 31 should be understood as having compound subjects, the jailer and his household. The singular imperative to believe does not exclude the household, but is rather a way of continuing the assumption that Paul first began to speak to the jailer while he was on duty (and the jailer's household was elsewhere, i.e., at home), and that the household comes into focus AFTER the jailer takes Paul and Silas to his house.
Waldo
Eddie Mishoe <edmishoe at yahoo.com> wrote:
16,32
KAI ELALHSAN AUTWi TON LOGON TOU KURIOU SUN PASIN TOIS
EN THi OIKIAi AUTOU
16,34
ANAGAGWN TE AUTOUS EIS TON OIKON PAREQHKEN TRAPEZAN,
KAI HGALLISASATO PANOIKEI PEPISTEUKWS TWi QEWi
For some reason Luke seems to focus his attention on
the fact that they spoke the word of the Lord AUTWi
(to the jailer), and that the jailer believed, using
again the singular PEPISTEUKWS. Each time the jailer's
household is loosely connected, and indirectly related
as some kind of participants. Any reason why in this
passage the household is referenced indirectly and
seemingly ambiguously (did they believe or piggyback
on the jailer)?
Also, does PANOIKEI modify HGALLISASATO or
PEPISTEUKWS? If PEPISTEUKWS, then this seems to be the
first direct linkage of the household putting their
faith in Christ(v. 31)/God(v. 34).
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Eddie Mishoe
Pastor
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