Choice Implies Meaning: The "Imperatival Participles" of 1 Peter.
That 1 Peter uses participles where imperatives are expected is clear. Why it does so is not. Scholarly discussion has focused on whether the participles are independent or dependent. Early grammarians argued that these participles were dependent but struggled to explain why the participles appeared...
| Published in: | Novum Testamentum Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 318 - 342 |
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2022
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