articles in Bible

By omitting the article, one may refer to the abstract concept of the word.

But they are parallel and similar, aren't they?

Keep in mind that the "King James" version of the Bible in English was intended by its translators to be poetic. In poetry it's allowable to tinker a bit with the grammar and normal word order to achieve the rhythm and sound you want.

The grammar in that excerpt is not good by modern standards, but it was written a long time ago so the rules may have been different then.

However, the omission of the article is not one of those questionable points and is still done today.

edit: please not that you can only do this with plural nouns

For instance, "I like people" means that I like the concept of people. In general, I like people. But it does not refer to any specific group of people. Perhaps I hate every single person that is around me because I consider them flawed, but I can still say that I like the abstract concept of people.

"I like the people" refers to a specific group of people, and you would know which group I was talking about from the context.

In this passage, the nouns with articles also refer to abstract concepts...I believe that "the tree" refers to the specific "ideal concept of a tree," and so still actually means the same thing.

This would be going off of Plato's concepts of reality in which one believes that all the objects in life are impure representations of pure abstract concepts. I forget the term for it.

Thank you. My English is poor. You're so omniscience.

Haha, thanks...but I'm neither omniscient, omnipotent, nor omnipresent

omnipotent is the adjective, omniscience is a noun.

so you should have said:

"You're so omniscient."

Thank you.

But you could say : Stuh, you are the omniscience personified..

Yes, but you'd have to leave the definite article out of the sentence, Francis . . . no, no, i'm definite on that point . . .

Yes, Set, definitely, I would...