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| This denotes punctiliar action occurring instantaneously or for a brief period of time. |
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| Ingressive (Inceptive, Inchoative) |
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| This stresses the beginning of an action or the entrance into a new sate or condition |
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| This denotes a series of aggregate of acts viewed as constituting a single fact. |
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| Effective (Culminative, Consummative) |
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| Stressing the end of an action (state), this aorist emphasizes the cessation and/or the culmination of that action. |
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| This embraces an extended act or state, however prolonged in time, viewed as constituting a single fact without reference to its progress. |
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| The Aorist is sometimes used in epistles. instead of a present tense when the writer, putting himself at the standpoint of the readers, refers to an event which is present to himself, but which will eventually be past when they read they letter. |
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| More vivid than the present tense, this aorist is a rhetorical device used to graphically describe a present happening as a past event. |
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| Speaking of the action as though it has already taken place, this aorist describes a future event with the certitude of a past act. |
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| The aorist denotes not what actually did happen, but describing generally accepted facts or truths axiomatic in character, it indicates what usually occurs. |
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