Excerpt from A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Including the Biblical Chaldee: Translated From the Latin

To Gesenius unquestionably belongs the high merit, of havin an impulse and interest to the cultivation of Hebrew Literature, far any thing which has been felt since the days of the Buxtorfs. Commencement of his labours, Hebrew learning in Germany, where, was at a very low ebb. In the autumn of 1829, the wri present at the opening of his course of Lectures on the Book of He then stated, as illustrating the progress of this branch of lit that he was now about to lecture on that book for the tenth course that when twenty years before he had commenced his 0 Halle with the same course, the number of his hearers was but fo and that he had then felt gratified, because his colleague, the cel Vater, had lectured on the same book the preceding year to a seven. This statement was made to a class of more than five l hearers. But among the thousands who had been his pupils, r whom were now devoting their lives to Hebrew and Oriental le and also among others who had been led on by his example and in: by his labours; it would have been strange indeed, bad than none to penetrate further than he into some of the various depa and recesses of Hebrew philology. And it is perhaps, at the day, a singular merit in Gesenius, that he was among the first t and adopt, with full acknowledgment, every valuable suggestim whatever quarter it might come; and also every result which won examination, however contrary it might be to his own previou The following sentence is doubtless a fair and candid exposition creed and practice on this point: Unwearied personal observat an impartial examination of the researches of others the grateful at and adeption of every real advance and illustration of science bt manly foresight and caution, which does not with eager levity ado; novelty thrown out in haste and from the love of innovation t must go hand in hand, wherever scientific truth is to be successft To the sincerity of this language the following pa.

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