adjective

Relating to or denoting a past tense of a verb (especially in Greek), which does not contain any reference to duration or completion of the action.

Two of the more troublesome phenomena are verbs with an active present and future middle; and ‘passive deponents,’ i.e., ‘deponent’ verbs whose aorists are passive in form, not middle.

noun

The aorist tense.

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.