The Greek tense there is not a simple past tense (“he was raised”) but the “perfect” tense, which denotes an action that occurred in the past and whose results persist in the present.

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Course: intermediate / Unit 7 / Grammar Reference. Past perfect tense Meaning and use We often use the past perfect when two things in a sentence happened in the past, and we need to show which ...

Past perfect: I had written the letter before she advised me against doing so. (Two actions: writing and advising.) The examples show that some people confuse has/have with had because they fail ...