New Testament Greek for Beginners

(Based on the book with the same title by Gresham Machen, The MacMillan Company, 1923)

References

186. Vocabulary

^(*1) In the New Testament, εἶδον has, in the indicative, almost exclusively first aorist endings, instead of second aorist endings, and in other verbs also first aorist endings are often placed on second aorist stems. See J. H. Moulton, A Grammar of New Testament Greek , Vol. II, 1920, "Accidence and Word Formation", edited by W. F. Howard, pp. 208f., note 1. It is therefore rather a concession to weakness when εἶδον etc. are here treated as second aorists throughout. But this procedure will probably be better until the nature of the second aorist becomes thoroughly familiar to the student. The first aorist endings can afterwards easily be recognized when they occur. Compare §521.