KJV: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
YLT: for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.'
Darby: For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.
ASV: For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call unto him.
| ὑμῖν | To you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| ἐπαγγελία | promise |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Feminine Singular Root: ἐπαγγελία Sense: announcement. |
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| τοῖς | to the |
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Parse: Article, Dative Neuter Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| τέκνοις | children |
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Parse: Noun, Dative Neuter Plural Root: τέκνον Sense: offspring, children. |
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| ὑμῶν | of you |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 2nd Person Plural Root: σύ Sense: you. |
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| πᾶσιν | to all |
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Parse: Adjective, Dative Masculine Plural Root: πᾶς Sense: individually. |
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| τοῖς | those |
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Parse: Article, Dative Masculine Plural Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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| εἰς | at |
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Parse: Preposition Root: εἰς Sense: into, unto, to, towards, for, among. |
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| μακρὰν | a distance |
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Parse: Adjective, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: μακράν Sense: far, a great way. |
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| ὅσους | as many as |
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Parse: Personal / Relative Pronoun, Accusative Masculine Plural Root: ὅσος Sense: as great as, as far as, how much, how many, whoever. |
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| ἂν | - |
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Parse: Particle Root: ἄν Sense: has no exact English equivalent, see definitions under AV. |
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| προσκαλέσηται | shall call to Himself |
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Parse: Verb, Aorist Subjunctive Middle, 3rd Person Singular Root: προσκαλέω Sense: to call to. |
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| Κύριος | [the] Lord |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: κύριος Sense: he to whom a person or thing belongs, about which he has power of deciding; master, lord. |
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| Θεὸς | God |
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Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular Root: θεός Sense: a god or goddess, a general name of deities or divinities. |
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| ἡμῶν | of us |
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Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive 1st Person Plural Root: ἐγώ Sense: I, me, my. |
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Greek Commentary for Acts 2:39
The promise made by Jesus (Acts 1:4) and foretold by Joel (Acts 2:18). [source]
You Jews. To your descendants, sons and daughters of Acts 2:17. To all that are afar off (πασιν τοις εις μακραν pāsin tois eis makran The horizon widens and includes the Gentiles. Those “afar off” from the Jews were the heathen (Isaiah 49:1; Isaiah 57:19; Ephesians 2:13, Ephesians 2:17). The rabbis so used it. Shall call First aorist middle subjunctive with αν an in an indefinite relative clause, a perfectly regular construction. The Lord God calls men of every nation anywhere whether Jews or Gentiles. It may be doubted how clearly Peter grasped the significance of these words for he will have trouble over this very matter on the housetop in Joppa and in Caesarea, but he will see before long the full sweep of the great truth that he here proclaims under the impulse of the Holy Spirit. It was a great moment that Peter here reaches. [source]
The rabbis so used it. [source]
First aorist middle subjunctive with αν an in an indefinite relative clause, a perfectly regular construction. The Lord God calls men of every nation anywhere whether Jews or Gentiles. It may be doubted how clearly Peter grasped the significance of these words for he will have trouble over this very matter on the housetop in Joppa and in Caesarea, but he will see before long the full sweep of the great truth that he here proclaims under the impulse of the Holy Spirit. It was a great moment that Peter here reaches. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Acts 2:39
Verbal adjective from δεχομαι dechomai Acceptabilis. That is to say, a Gentile would not have to become a Jew in order to become a Christian. Evidently Peter had not before perceived this fact. On the great Day of Pentecost when he spoke of the promise “to all those afar off” (Acts 2:39) Peter understood that they must first become Jews and then Christians. The new idea that now makes a revolution in Peter‘s outlook is precisely this that Christ can and will save Gentiles like this Cornelius group without their becoming Jews at all. [source]
The second ἵνα is parallel with the first. The deliverance from the curse results not only in extending to the Gentiles the blessing promised to Abraham, but in the impartation of the Spirit to both Jews and Gentiles through faith. The εὐλογία blessingis not God's gift of justification as the opposite of the curse; for in Galatians 3:10, Galatians 3:11, justification is not represented as the opposite of the curse, but as that by which the curse is removed and the blessing realized. The content of the curse is death, Galatians 3:13. The opposite of the curse is life. The subject of the promise is the life which comes through the Spirit. See John 7:39; Acts 2:17, Acts 2:38, Acts 2:39; Acts 10:45, Acts 10:47; Acts 15:7, Acts 15:8; Romans 5:5; Romans 8:2, Romans 8:4, Romans 8:6, Romans 8:11; Ephesians 1:13. [source]
Without regard to nationality. The scope of the new covenant was wider than that of the old. Comp. Acts 2:39. In Hebrews 3:1, the readers are addressed as “partakers of a heavenly calling,” which corresponds with “eternal inheritance” here. Those who obtain this inheritance are designated as “called.” See Ephesians 1:18; 1 Thessalonians 2:12; 1 Thessalonians 5:24; 1 Peter 3:9. [source]