... Specifically here Gesenius changed his opinion in general regarding the meaning of the Hebrew definite article as well as itsYour quotation comes from, or is unchanged in, the 1910 second English edition of Gesenius as revised by Kautzsch and translated by Cowley (GKC). Gesenius himself passed away in 1842. So he can hardly have changed his opinion subsequent to 1910. If GKC does not agree with what Gesenius himself wrote on this issue, that must be because Kautzsch or Cowley had a different opinion from Gesenius, perhaps informed by nearly 70 years advance in scholarship. Of course with the benefit of another nearly 100 years of scholarship we may want to make further revisions. But we shouldn't attribute our new opinions to Gesenius.
application to 7:14 (that the definite article is indeed intended) in a
subsequent publication.
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