From: clayton stirling bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Jan 11 1998 - 04:06:25 EST
I read Acts 8:7a, POLLOI . . . EXHRCONTO at least a dozen times before I
figured out what was going on. It appears that PNEUMATA AKAQARTA is
functioning as the accusative object of the participle ECONTWN as well as the
subject of the verb EXHRCONTO. This seemed a little odd to me. So after a
nights sleep, I looked at it again and decided to check some reference books.
I found a good discussion of this passage in Metzger's textual commentary (1st
ed).
Metzger said that POLLOI (1st occurrence) is a "Nominativas Pendens." After
doing some review on the nominative absolute, I am not sure how this solves
the problems associated with this passage. Can anyone explain this to me?
Codex Bezae reads POLLOIS for POLLOI, which Metzger says is an attempt to
make this passage more readable. Again, I don't see how POLLOIS clarifies the
syntax here. Can anyone explain this to me?
Metzger mentions that several conjectural emendations have been suggested for
making this passage readable. If I had been a scribe trying to disambiguate
this passage I would have changed ECONTWN to a finite verb and inserted a
conjunction after AKAQARTA. If you had been a scribe who wanted to clarify
this verse how would you had done it?
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Clayton Stirling Bartholomew
Three Tree Point
P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
"If you throw a rock from a Pullman traveling anywhere in America you are
likely to hit a Dallas grad." H. L. Mencken*
*(a dynamic equivalence translation.)
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