προῃτιασάμεθα (proetiasametha) in Romans 3:9: Verb First Person Plural Aorist Middle Deponent Indicative

Verb: the form names an action or state, here an accusation or charging action expressed in the clause.

Aorist: commonly views the action as a whole event. It should not be treated as automatically punctiliar or automatically past in every context.

Middle Deponent: uses a middle or passive form traditionally read with active sense. The lexeme and sentence still govern the meaning.

Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.

First person: the speaker or speakers are grammatically involved in the verbal form.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Plural: the form is grammatically plural and fits a first-person speaker group in the sentence.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

προεχόμεθα; οὐ πάντως

The form is coordinated with the surrounding speech and the following causal clause, which explains the claim being made.

It functions as the stated action of the speakers, introducing a prior accusation about Jews and Greeks being under sin.

It is not a noun, not a separate subject, and not a form that by itself settles the exact nuance beyond the context provided.

High: The verb introduces Paul's prior charge that Jews and Greeks alike are under sin.

Aorist middle deponent indicative, first person plural. states the speaker's prior charge before the infinitive content that follows. Attached to the explanatory clause in Romans 3:9. Governed by Paul's argument about Jews and Greeks under sin. The collective first person names the argumentative action; the following phrase supplies the charge's content.

What has already been charged in the argument? The charge is that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin.

Supporting: The form supports a rendering such as we have already charged or we charged before.

Middle deponent morphology should not be used to infer self-interest or passive agency. Aorist form presents the charge in the argument and should not be overread as a timing theory. The theological claim comes from the clause content and Romans 3 argument.

Middle deponent means self-interest: The deponent label should not add agency nuance beyond the argument. aorist proves a once-for-all accusation: The aorist serves the argumentative summary; it is not a doctrine of finality.

The textus receptus of Romans 3:9 reads προῃτιασάμεθα, and the clause immediately adds the content of the accusation.

The lemma προαιτιάομαι carries the sense of accusing or charging beforehand, and the cited gloss matches that basic idea.

The first-person plural form fits the speaker's collective voice, while the aorist indicative presents the claim as a single asserted point in the argument.

In this verse the form supports the statement that Jews and Greeks are charged as being all under sin, rather than describing a repeated or ongoing process.

The grammar fits Paul's argument here by serving a rhetorical exchange about human standing, without requiring the form to carry the full theology by itself.

For communication, the form helps readers hear a direct corporate assertion that moves the reasoning toward universal need.

Do not derive more than the context gives, such as a detailed tense theory, a hidden doctrinal claim, or a change in lexical meaning.