I can sympathize with the physician and the attorney, since the future
cannot be known with certainty. But here, we are dealing with past events,
the 1000 year old masoretic text. And yet no one appears willing to say:
"the masoretic text employs two verb forms "yiqtol" and "qatal," rather than
one verb form, for the following reason: ...... "
It seems to me the reason for it (two, versus one, verb forms), is
susceptible to both identification and articulation in a sentence or two.
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