5774 Tense - Present

     The present tense represents a simple statement of fact
     or reality viewed as occurring in actual time.  In most cases
     this corresponds directly with the English present tense.

     Some phrases which might be rendered as past tense in English
     will often occur in the present tense in Greek.  These are
     termed "historical presents," and such occurrences dramatize
     the event described as if the reader were there watching the
     event occur.  Some English translations render such historical
     presents in the English past tense, while others permit the
     tense to remain in the present.