Aorist Imperative Attic

Aorist imperative attic. For the distinction of time between the present and aorist see 313. Aorist ˈ eɪ ə r ɪ s t. Paul uses the middle voice to express the view that god chose the people for god s own reasons not to suggest that god is the one chosen. The tenses occurring in the imperative are the present aorist and perfect but only a few perfect active forms occur and these are rare.

The literary greek of athens in the fifth and fourth centuries bc attic. Abbreviated aor verb forms usually express perfective aspect and refer to past events similar to a preterite. Of αἰρῶ αἰρέω choose. Ancient greek grammar had the aorist form and the grammars of other indo european languages and languages influenced by the indo european grammatical tradition such as middle persian sanskrit armenian the south slavic languages and georgian also.

Here chose translates an aorist middle form 2nd aor. The presence of ὑμᾶς you functioning as the direct object means this clause cannot be reflexive. Notice that the plural forms of the aorist active indicative of γινώσκω use a second aorist stem but first aorist endings. Because the aorist stem of γινώσκω γνω ends in the long vowel ω the thematic vowel of the singular endings is lost through contraction.

In traditional grammatical terminology the aorist is a tense a section of the verb paradigm formed with the same stem across all moods by contrast in theoretical linguistics tense refers to a form that specifies a point in time past present or future so the aorist is a tense aspect combination. Personal endings of the active imperative.