rwp@Romans:15:4 @{Were written aforetime} (\proegraph\). Second aorist passive indicative of \prograph\, old verb, in N.T. only here, kjv@Galatians:3:1| (which see); kjv@Ephesians:3:3; kjv@Jude:1:4|. {For our learning} (\eis tn hmeteran didaskalian\). "For the instruction of us." Objective sense of possessive pronoun \hmeteros\. See kjv@Matthew:15:9; kjv@2Timothy:3:16| for \didaskalian\ (from \didask\, to teach). {We might have hope} (\tn elpida echmen\). Present active subjunctive of \ech\ with \hina\ in final clause, "that we might keep on having hope." One of the blessed uses of the Scriptures.