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It is best to conclude that the word here refers to an individual ‘Scripture’, i.e. ‘a passage in the collection identified as the Scriptures’ (Oberlinner;, 147). (b) The syntax of the adjective πᾶσα. With an anarthrous sing. noun πᾶς means either ‘every’ or ‘all the, the whole’.74 In most cases the context makes it clear which interpretation is to be followed. Both senses can occur side by side (Acts 17:26a, b). The sense ‘every kind of’ is also found.75 The following meanings have been suggested
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