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A.T. Robertson active adjective Adjectives Aorist Aorist Indicative benefacere bonus castitas certamen Ernest De Witt Burton Friedrich Wilhelm Blass Future Indicative Georg Benedikt Winer Hebrew ignorantia ignotus Imperfect Indicative iniquitas laus Present Indicative sanctificare sanctificatio sanctus verb vigilare Κοινή θαυμαζω πάντες τις ܐܚܐ ܐܡܢ ܒܐܫ ܕܒܪ ܕܟܐ ܕܡ ܚܒ ܚܛܐ ܣܟܠ ܥܘܠ ܥܩ ܨܕ ܩܕܫ ܫܒܚ ܫܘܩܐ
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Aorist Indicative: The Disctinction Between The Aorist And The Imperfect
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE AORIST AND THE IMPERFECT (1) The difference between an Historical Aorist and an Imperfect of action in progress or repeated being one not of the nature of the fact but of the speaker’s conception of the … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Aorist For The (English) Perfect
THE AORIST FOR THE (ENGLISH) PERFECT (1) The Aorist is frequently used in Greek where the English idiom requires a Perfect. Luke 19:9; Σήμερον σωτηρία τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ ἐγένετο, to-day is salvation come to this house. Matt. 5:21; Ἠκούσατε ὅτι … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Dramatic Aorist
The Aorist Indicative is sometimes used of a state of mind just reached, or of an act expressive of it. The effect is to give to the statement greater vividness than is given by the more usual Present. Luke 16:4.; … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Epistolary Aorist
The writer of a letter sometimes puts himself in the place of his reader and describes as past that which is to himself present, but which will be past to his reader. Eph. 6:22; ὃν ἔπεμψα πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰς αὐτὸ … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Gnomic Aorist
The Aorist is used in proverbs and comparisons where the English commonly uses a General Present. 1 Pet. 1:24; ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν, the grass withereth and the flower falleth. See also Luke 7:35; John 15:6; Jas. … Continue reading
