Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 10:47 - 10:47

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Acts 10:47 - 10:47


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47. μήτι τὸ ὕδωρ δύναται κωλῦσαί τις τοῦ μὴ βαπτισθῆναι τούτους; can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized? Here is another instance of the genitival infinitive so common in N.T. Greek. But here, as κωλύειν may have a genitive of the thing from which any one is hindered, the construction offers less difficulty. The μὴ before βαπτισθῆναι is an instance of the Greek fondness for doubling negative ideas. Cf. Eur. Phoeniss. 1268 κωλύειν τινὰ μὴ θανεῖν, where the negative only renders emphatic the sense of the verb.

Though the gift of the Spirit has been made so apparent, yet St Peter does not omit the outward sign which Christ had ordained (Mat 28:19) for the admission of members into His Church.

ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς, as well as we. And in precisely the same kind of manifestation.