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[Magnus Hreinn Snaedal]

First:
Gothic 'sa' is NOT an article, but a demonstrative, cf. Braune/Ebbinghaus
§153.

The word 'himins' NEVER takes the 'sa' in the entire Gothic corpus. (If
there is only one can be disputed, cf. 'und þridjan himin' in 2 Cor 12:2.)
In Matthew 'himins' occurs 21 times as a translation of Greek 'ouranós'; in
16 instances the Greek article is left untranslated; in 5 there is no
article in the Greek text.

In Gothic 'airþa' takes the 'sa' once: 'ana þizai godon airþai', Lk 8:15.
In Matthew airþa occurs 11 times as a translation of Greek 'gê'; in 10
instances the Greek article is left untranslated; in 1 there is no article
in the Greek text.

Indeed, when one compares the Gothic and Greek word for word, one of the
most striking feature is how often the Greek article has no representation
in Gothic.

M.Sn.
>
>However the Greek (which Ulphilas would have been reading) and the Hebrew
>itself DO have articles. As does the English. Since there is (in every day
>experience anyway) only one heaven and one earth it's not really confusing
if
>they are introduced as something we've heard of before.
>
>-IUSTEINUS
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