Regarding your questions about aorist verbs in Greek Isaiah 44:24: The
aorist forms in Greek are timeless. Often, the aorist is correctly
translated as past-tense because it refers aspectually to events that
are viewed as complete (or punctiliar, as a snapshot, etc.). The past
tense is a tidy way of expressing complete events in English, since the
present and future tenses are essentially aspectually incomplete or
irrealis.
Therefore, it is completely appropriate for a Greek aorist verb to
express present tense for a simple, aspectually unmarked event.
Dan Wallace discusses this at length, with very helpful examples, in
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, 554-555. On page 556, he describes the
gnomic use of the aorist, which seems to fit the usage you depict in
Isaiah 44:24.
The verbs in the Masoretic Text of Isaiah 44:24 are participles: I, Y",
am the MAKER (ptcp) of all, STRETCHER [of] the heavens, BEATER
(EXTENDER) of the Earth."
Or you could take the participial construction as progressive: "I am the
one MAKING/DOING all, STRETCHING the heavens, BEATING OUT the Earth."
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