"certain" inThe First Noel

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>OED2 for "certain", a., n., and adv.:
>
>II. 7.    a. Used to define things which the mind definitely
>individualizes or particularizes from the general mass ....
>
>"the first Nowell... was to certain poor shepherds" has always seemed
>to me to have this use of "certain" in it; it never occurred to me
>that there was a problem in interpretation. ....

>arnold

Me too.

-- Doug Wilson


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