HH: What you are seeking for seems unrealistic. An essential idea of the Greek aorist is that it is a preterite; it expresses past meaning. But that is not always the case. Sometimes the aorist can be used in contexts which indicate a present meaning. And it can be used in contexts which imply a future meaning. I was just reading about it:
When I ask the question: "Is past tense an uncancelable part of the WAYYIQTOL form?," I seek a scrupulous distinction between semantics and pragmatics when I answer the question, and I use "scrupulous" as defined by Websters.
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