5774 時態 - 現在式

    希臘文的現在式表達一個簡單的事實, 在某一個確定時間所發生的.
    它通常相當於英文中的現在式. 然而, 它也常被譯為過去式, 就是所謂的
     "歷史上確實存在的一個狀況" , 也就是說讀者好像在過去的那個時間
    裡, 親眼目睹了事件發生的過程. 不過有時它仍被譯為現在式.

5774 Tense - Present

    The present tense represents a simple statement of fact
    or reality viewed as occurring in actual time.  In most cases
    this corresponds directly with the English present tense.

    Some phrases which might be rendered as past tense in English
    will often occur in the present tense in Greek.  These are
    termed "historical presents," and such occurrences dramatize
    the event described as if the reader were there watching the
    event occur.  Some English translations render such historical
    presents in the English past tense, while others permit the
    tense to remain in the present.