Excerpt from On the Rendering Into English of the Greek Aorist and Perfect: With New Appendices on the New Testament Use of Gap and of OynThis is much as if any one knowing that the Iberian Peninsula is of about the same extent as France, and that they are both tolerably compact in shape, should conclude that if maps of these countries drawn to the same scale be compared by superposition (as we prove the equality of certain pairs of triangles or segments of circles in some of the familiar propositions of Euclid), they will at least very nearly coincide. Let him try the experiment, and he will find that here France will largely overlap, there the Peninsula, and if the maps are correctly drawn, by no ingenuity can one be made to fit with any approach to exactness upon the other. Correctly drawn: dropping the figure I affirm that the English Past, used according to the true English will largely fail to coincide with the Aorist of the Greek verb; and so of the two Perfects.Moreover I do not propose to subject these tenses to complete and exhaustive treatment, and to go once more over all the ground that the labours of so many able and eminent grammarians have covered.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.