TrinJ 24:1 (Spring 03) p. 57 typically aorist middle were increasingly occurring in the aorist passive form, yet still with a middle or active meaning.7 The two most common examples of this are ἀπεκρίθη instead of ἀπεκρίνατο and ἐγενήθην instead of ἐγενόμην. In both of these instances, some of the aorist middle forms are residual in the NT. Thirdly, the active forms plus a reflexive pronoun are increasingly used where Classical Greek would have used the middle.8 Understanding this development