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aorist
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aorist: see tense tense [O.Fr., from Lat.,=time], in the grammar of many languages, a category of time distinctions expressed by any conjugated form of a verb. In Latin inflection the tense of a verb is indicated by a suffix that also indicates the verb's voice , mood , person, and
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Rather, using the aorist tense he describes in vv 21-27 events in the past, the origin of idolatry and same-sex relations between women and men, which, in themselves (apparently) and in their effects (clearly), continue into the present and are falling under the sway of divine wrath--as unequivocally revealed in the present tenses in the framing vv 18 and 32.
When the forgiveness of sins is considered, the use of the aorist tense in the Lord's Prayer makes clear that only a final (one-time only) forgiveness is sought when the Lord comes (Brown 1961: 200-01).
 
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