[B-Greek] Re Acts 3.26 EN TWi APOSTREFEIN - instrumental or concurrenttime

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Feb 12 02:02:57 EST 2011


On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Richard Smith <rbs58 at comcast.net> wrote:
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It seems also possible to take both with each in different
perspectives - Act 3:19 as God's calling them to turn back and, in
response to that, 3:26 as their turning away from the evil deeds.

Personally I take 26b to follow Cassirer's translation:
               ... so that through Him you would, one and all,  be made to turn
from your evil ways.

I wonder whether the verb smacks of something of 'middle' voice.

Oun Kwon

P.S. I forgot to send to a copy to B-Greek.



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