participles English to Greek

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I’m stumped. How does one translate

those who had ransomed…

I assume it uses a participle because the lesson is on that topic, but what tense?

Jean

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Hi Jean, good question, I’m not positive, but this is my guess: I think it would be a perfect pple, and I believe that for the meaning “to ransom” λύω would be in the middle voice, so perhaps οἱ λελυμένοι. Hopefully someone else will chime in too.

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What’s the rest of the sentence? Sometimes where we use a past perfect in English subclauses it makes good sense in Greek to use an aorist. We talked about this a bit early last year: Tenses.