Re: EPI TO AUTO

From: Carlton L. Winbery (winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net)
Date: Mon Jun 03 1996 - 09:08:04 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?

I know that others have adequately answered this question. I wanted to
call attention to another similar idiom in 1 John 5:8.

KAI hOI TREIS EIS TO hEN EISIN.

"These three agree" (are unto the one).

Carlton Winbery
Fogleman Prof. Religion
Louisiana College
winberyc@popalex1.linknet.net



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