[B-Greek] Acts 16,32 & 34

Barbara D. Colt babc2 at comcast.net
Wed Mar 31 15:42:42 EST 2004



On 31 Mar 2004 at 10:55, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Waldo wrote:
> 
> > Verse 31 should be understood as having compound
> > subjects, the jailer and his household. The singular
> > imperative to believe does not exclude the
> > household, but is rather a way of continuing the
> > assumption that Paul first began to speak to the
> > jailer while he was on duty (and the jailer's
> > household was elsewhere, i.e., at home), and that
> > the household comes into focus AFTER the jailer
> > takes Paul and Silas to his house.
> 
> Text:
> 
> hOI DE EIPAN, PISTEUSON EPI TON KURION IHSOUN, KAI
> SWQHSHi SU KAI hO OIKOS SOU
> 
> Could one also take hO OIKOS SOU, since it is
> grammatically singular as well, as the subject of PISTEUSON?
> 
I suspect something rather hard for modern Americans to imagine but 
common in a society where the father was the legal head of household--
The household head decided and that was that.  Though I suppose that 
if anyone had expressed any objection (not likely), Peter would not 
have baptized that one.



Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco
>From envy, hatred, and malice and all uncharitableness
Good Lord, deliver us.




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