[B-Greek] Great Commision Matt 28:19

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 16 17:26:27 EST 2005


> John Gill says:
> 
> "baptizing them; not all nations, for the 
> antecedent to the relative "them", cannot be "all 
> nations"; since...the words for "all nations", 
> are of the neuter gender, whereas... "them", is of 
> the masculine."

Maybe TA EQNH (the Gentiles, the nations) is a
metonymy or synecdoche (I can't remember the correct
term) for "[the people of] the nations" and hence when
Jesus says AUTOUS He means to make disciples of, and
baptize, "the people of" (the nations/Gentiles).

(a) I don't think so
(b) see my guess above re: metonymy/synecdoche
(c) 1. aim at making all people and peoples - i.e.,
everyone - My disciples, regardless of whether or not
all will become My disciples. If He only had a partial
group in mind, I would think He would have used a
preposition like EK/EX.

My guesses.

=====
Eric S. Weiss




		
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