Re: EPI TO AUTO

From: Bruce Terry (terry@bible.acu.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 05 1996 - 13:48:37 EDT


Jim Vallenga wrote;
>I have run across the Greek idiom EPI TO AUTO three times in
>Acts 2. Most translations translate it as some variety of
>"together". But this is also the translation of hOMOU, which
>appears along with it in Acts 2.1:
>
> ... they were all hOMOU EPI TO AUTO
>
>Can anyone give me a sense of the differences in flavor between
>hOMOU, EPI TO AUTO, and SUN?

On EPI TO AUTO consult

Ferguson, Everett. 1973. "'When You Come Together': _Epi To Auto_ in Early
     Christian Literature." _Restoration Quarterly_ 16 (3,4): 202-208.

Ferguson maintains that EPI TO AUTO developed a quasi-technical significance
of referring to the Christian community.

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