Re: Acts 2:38

From: Vincent Broman (broman@nosc.mil)
Date: Thu Jan 08 1998 - 13:20:05 EST


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I appreciated being able to review the b-greek archives on this verse,
many good comments having been made, but I still have a couple of questions.

jonathan@texcel.no wrote:
> Here's how I read it:
>
> PETROS DE PROS AUTOUS,
> METANOHSATE (FHSIN)
> KAI BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS hUMWN
> EPI TW ONOMATI IHSOU XRISTOU
> EIS AFESIN TWN hAMARTWN hUMWN
> KAI LHMPSESQE THN DWREAN TOU hAGIOU PNEUMATOS.

Would it make a little more sense to read the verse as two pairs
of expressions, parallel like Hebrew verse, forming two related commands
and two related promises?

    PETROS DE PROS AUTOUS METANOHSATE [FHSIN]
    KAI BAPTISQHTW hEKASTOS hUMWN EPI TW ONOMATI IHSOU XRISTOU

    EIS AFESIN TWN hAMARTIWN hUMWN
    KAI LHMYESQE THN DWREAN TOU hAGIOU PNEUMATOS

That way, the baptismal command is comprehensible, placed between
the command to repent and the promises. It also does not suggest
that forgiveness could be obtained by baptism alone, without repentance.
I just wonder how radically different the halves of a parallelism can be,
in syntax, given that the thoughts underneath are still nicely matched.

Jonathan@texcel.no also quoted Robertson about this EIS
indicating not aim or purpose but basis or grounds.
Is this theory the "causal EIS" idea, which I saw called "absurd"
by a respected pillar, when he saw the theory introduced into
Bauer's dictionary by its English Translator?

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