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

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jan 10 09:28:39 EST 2005


At 5:39 AM -0800 1/10/05, Eric Weiss wrote:
>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?

I don't see that it does; it's simply a distributive form of BAPTISQHTE
indicating that baptism is an individual experience or is so conceived by
the speaker in this instance.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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