[B-Greek] Acts 16,32 & 34

waldo slusher waldoslusher at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 31 16:20:34 EST 2004


Mitch:
 
I might back down from this if shown otherwise, but the sense I get from the KAI...KAI is "both...and." So, the idea would be:
 
"Believe on the Lord Jesus, BOTH you AND your household will be saved."
 
Waldo
 
 


Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com> 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?

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Mitch Larramore
Spring Branch, Texas
Student/Memorial High School

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