[B-Greek] "EIS" in Ac. 2:38

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Jan 8 10:41:06 EST 2005


At 9:37 AM -0600 1/8/05, Charles Rempel wrote:
>An additional translation that may "work" here for EIS is "with reference
>to."
>
>Doug Hoxworth
>Luther Rice Seminary
>
>CDR: Sounds like back door "causal EIS" to me. What textual basis do you
>have?

I don't think this is really "causal EIS" at all; I think rather it's
another name for what I referred to in my original response as "accusative
of specification":

"It can under the right circumstances mean "with respect to"--i.e. the
preposition simply highlights an accusative of specification."

I must confess I don't really think that's satisfactory here; I think that
EIS here does indeed mean "for" or "for the purpose of."
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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