[B-Greek] "EIS" in Ac. 2:38
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sat Jan 8 11:04:44 EST 2005
Carl Conrad wrote:
> 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."
I, too, pointed out in my post that "with respect to" works for most of the examples
I gave. I also suggested that an understanding of the first-century Jewish
understanding of the relationship between baptism and forgiveness of sins might
be valuable. What I didn't suggest earlier was reading what the early church
understood the relationship to be between baptism, repentance and forgiveness of
sins (as well as regeneration). EARLY CHRISTIANS SPEAK (volume 1) by Everett
Ferguson (a noted Patristics authority) is one source (besides the writings of the
Fathers and the Didache and Shepherd themselves), as is BAPTISM IN THE EARLY
CHURCH by H.F. Stander and J.P. Louw (of the Louw-Nida Lexicon).
Eric S. Weiss
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