Of course, the event, no matter how dramatic, is of little significance if she does not continue to walk in the days to come--which reminds me of Joel Green's IBR paper a couple weeks ago on "Acts as a Conversionist Narrative." Green claims that the modern view of conversion as an internal event that occurs at a particular point in time is foreign to Luke. Though Luke sometimes compresses a process into a moment, conversion, for Luke, is a journey. I wasn't completely persuaded that Luke thinks conversion is always a process, but the larger point is well taken: Participation in the "Way" must be on-going.*ἡ παῖς μου περιπατεῖ! means "my child is walking!"
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As an enclitic here, μου should be unaccented. :)
εὐχαριστῶ!
A few steps is a few steps and that most definitely counts! Good for her! Pretty soon she'll be running,(I can't say that in whatever language you used--its all Greek to me) and then, look out!
K
Wow she's grown! What a beauty.
Good point above, by the way, on not just assuming we're being persecuted for our beliefs, when it could be attitude/hypocrisy, etc.
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