[B-Greek] "EIS" in Ac. 2:38
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 10 08:39:48 EST 2005
Doug Hoxworth wrote:
> 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:
<snip>
Is there any significance to the fact that Peter says BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS
hUMWN ... EIS AFESIN TWN hAMARTIWN hUMWN, rather than EIS AFESIN
TWN hAMARTIWN SOU? Is his use of the singular BAPTISQHTW strictly due
to the fact that hEKASTOS requires a singular, or could he have also written
BAPTISQHTWSAN hEKASTOS hUMWN? In other words, does the use of the
singular BAPTISQHTW do something to disconnect BAPTISQHTW from EIS
AFESIN TWN hAMARTIWN hUMWN, or really do nothing of the kind?
Eric S. Weiss
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