take long when beginning to read the Greek New Testament, however, to discover that tense is not the whole story. We quickly discover verbs in the present tense that refer to the past. There are also past tenses that refer to the present. There are even future-referring past tenses. Furthermore, what’s the difference between two past tenses in Greek? Tense cannot be the whole story with Greek verbs, since there is a difference in meaning between the aorist and imperfect—both past tenses. The nineteenth
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