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Verse 24:

αὐτοι εἴδοσαν τὰ ἔργα κυρίου καὶ τὰ θαυμάσια αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ βυθῷ


What is εἴδοσαν ? I assume it's from ὁράω , but I can't parse it -- and nor can Perseus!

Logos says it is Aorist Active Indicative 3rd Person Plural.

Shouldn't that be εἴδον ?

perhaps both forms were used at different times... eidosan does have a more regular form for an aorist anyway. :)

In Koine Greek, the ending ‐σαν was widely used. So could the 3rd person plural aorist II (or even imperfect) indicative active be distinguished from the 1st person singular : Chantraine, Morphologie historique du grec, mentions ὑπελαμβάνοσαν, ἀπήλθοσαν, εἴχοσαν, ἐδοκοῦσαν instead of ὑπελάμβανον, ἀπῆλθον, εἶχον, ἐδόκουν.

Good, I'm all in favour of disambiguation.