James 1:24

ἀπελήλυθεν καὶ εὐθέως ἐπελάθετο ὁποῖος ἧν. The tenses are used with great exactness: the perfect denotes immediate succession and enduring result, ‘he has gone and is still away’; comp. terra tremit, fugere ferae, Virg. Georg. 1. 330. The aorist denotes the single instantaneous act of forgetting. For similar exact uses of these tenses in combination, comp. Luke 4:18 ἔχρισέν με (a single eternal act) εὐαγγελίσασθαι, ἀπέσταλκέν με (continued result) κηρύξαι: Hebrews 2:14 ἐπεὶ τὰ παιδία κεκοινώνηκεν σαρκὸς καὶ αἵματος καὶ αὐτὸς μετέσχεν (at His incarnation) τῶν αὐτῶν. See Winer, III. § xl. 6, where other instances are given.