Our Authorized Bible Vindicated - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

The Revisers said that this was wrong, claiming
that the aorist should always be translated by the
past tense and not by the perfect. This new rule,
Farrar claims, changed hundreds of texts affecting
both Old Testament prophecies and “the great
crises of Christian life.”
As to the unfairness of this rule, we could quote
from many witnesses. We will let only one testify.
Sir Edmund Beckett, LL.D., says:
“No one rule of that kind has produced so many
alterations in the Revised Version as that an aorist
always means an action past and gone, while a
perfect tense implies action continuing up to the
present time... But if we find that forcing the
English translation to conform to those rules
produces confusion, or such English as no master
of it writes, and no common person uses; that it is
neither colloquial or solemn, nor impressive, nor
more perspicacious than the old phrases, and often
less so; such facts will override all general rules in
the minds of men of common sense, not bewildered
by too much learning or the pedantry of displaying
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