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==== Hermeneutic implications ====
Because the aorist was not maintained in either Latin or the Germanic languages, there have long been difficulties in translating the Greek [[New Testament]] into Western languages. The aorist has often been interpreted as making a strong statement about the aspect or even the time of an event, when, in fact, due to its being the [[markedness|unmarked]] (default) form of the Greek verb, such implications are often left to context. Thus, within New Testament [[hermeneutics]], it is considered an [[exegesis|exegetical]] [[fallacy]] to attach undue significance to uses of the aorist.<sup>[]</sup> Although one may draw specific implications from an author's use of the imperfective or perfect, no such conclusions can, in general, be drawn from the use of the aorist, which may refer to an action "without specifying whether the action is unique, repeated, ingressive, instantaneous, past, or accomplished."<sup>[]</sup> In particular, the aorist does not imply a "once for all" action, as it has commonly been misinterpreted, although it frequently refers to a simple, non-repeated action.<sup>[]</sup>