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How can the task of biblical exegesis be fruitful and meaningful when commentaries and lexicons provide contradictory interpretations and seem to support opposing translations? The 24-volume Exegetical Summaries Series asks important exegetical and interpretive questions—phrase-by-phrase—and summarizes and organizes the content from every major Bible commentary and dozens of lexicons. You can...

QUESTION—What is indicated by the change from the perfect tense in the preceding verbs ἀκηκόαμεν … ἑωράκομεν ‘we have heard … we have seen’ to the aorist tense of the verbs ἐθεασάμεθα … ἐψηλάφησαν ‘we looked at … (our hands) touched’? 1. A change from the perfect tense to the aorist tense marks a change of focus from the continuing effect to the historical event [Alf, Brd, ICC, Lns, TNTC, Ws]. 2. The change from the perfect tense to the aorist tense is stylistic and carries no significant
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