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Revelation 15:3

3 And they * sang the asong of Moses, bthe bond-servant of God, and the csong of the Lamb, saying,

dGreat and marvelous are Your works,

eO Lord God, the Almighty;

Righteous and true are Your ways,

fKing of the 1nations!

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A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

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Two early mss read ages