{For before they were at enmity between themselves}
(proup(8872)chon gar en echthr(8369) ontes pros heautous). A
periphrastic imperfect of the double compound prouperch(935c), an
old verb, to exist (huparch(935c)) previously (pro-), here alone
in the N.T., with ontes (participle of eimi) added.