Why Is It "All" the House of Israel in Acts 2:36 Instead of "Every"?

Narrator: Chris Genthree
Duration: 1min
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Question: Why should it be “all the house of Israel” in Acts 2:3636Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. (Acts 2:36), as there is no article in the Greek? Does not πᾶς οἷκος mean “every house”?
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Answer: Without “of Israel” connected it would be “every house”; but with it the case is altered. “House of Israel” is in thought a compound term and is sufficiently defined without the article, like “all Jerusalem” which dispenses with it. So it is with “building” in Eph. 2:2121In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: (Ephesians 2:21), a composite whole in sense, which makes “every” improper and false. The Revisers seem to have been quite astray in all this, though right of course in Eph. 3:1515Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, (Ephesians 3:15), as “family” has no such reason to plead. “Each several building” is gravely false, at issue with the context even, as with all scripture, which insists on unity.