Peter, that quote was out of Samuel Johnson's grammar, I think dated from 1755.
As you can see, the endings are used on verbs in connection with the pronoun, and with the tense. Every kind of different form here is rightly used in its right place. There is nothing random about it. And it is so particular, conveying so much information, far beyond the comparatively simplistic grammar of modern translations (where it is sometimes wrong, because of their misunderstanding of Greek grammar laws).
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