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Ye were led away (apagomenoi). The copula ēte is not expressed (common ellipsis) with the participle (periphrastic imperfect passive), but it has to be supplied to make sense. Some scholars would change hote (when) to pote (once) and so remove the difficulty.
Unto those dumb idols (pros ta eidōla ta aphōna). “Unto the idols the dumb.” See Psa 95:5-7 for the voicelessness (ȧphōna, old adjective, without voice, phōnē) of the idols. Pagans were led astray by demons (1Co 10:19.).
Howsoever ye might be led (hōs an ēgesthe). Rather, “as often as ye were led.” For this use of hōs an for the notion of repetition, regular Koiné[28928]š idiom, see Robertson, Grammar, p. 974. Cf. hopou an in Mar 6:56.