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

Doug Hoxworth doughoxworth at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 9 22:13:54 EST 2005


This may have been brought up already, and after I
thought of it I looked it up in a few grammars and
commentaries and Wallace believes that "its subtlety
and awkwardness are against it." But I was considering
the plural imperative (METANOHSATE) and singular
distributive imperative (BAPTISQHTW) and wondered if
perhaps it should be translated, punctuated, and
understood thusly:

"Repent (and each one of you be baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ) for the forgiveness of sins (or
perhaps the deep structure is 'Repent...so that your
sins may be forgiven')..."

So my suggestion is that the change between the plural
and distributive singular is because the distributive
singular thought is somewhat parenthetical. I would
suggest this because the first prepositional phrase
(EPI TWi ONOMATI IHSOU CRISTOU) most definitely
adverbially modifies BAPTISQHTW and *not* METANOHSATE;
and the second prepositional phrase (EIS AFESIN TWN
hAMARTIWN hUMWN) adverbially modifies METANOHSATE and
not BAPTISQHTW (or both METANOHSATE and BAPTISQHTW).
Does this seem plausible? Are there any objections to
this other than what Wallace brings against it ("its
subtlety and awkwardness are against it" pg 370)?

Doug Hoxworth
Luther Rice Seminary


		
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