 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pàgines
...ground. And Jeshua aijd the Levites, caused the People to understand the law. So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave. the sense and caused them to understand the reading. And Nehemiah the Governor, and Ezra the Priest^ .said unto all the People, This day is holy unto the... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pàgines
...church of God tells us, that he learned much on the subject of preaching from Nehemiah viii. 8, " Lo, they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Many parts of the Word of God need no explanntion ; and any attempt to make their meaning more plain,... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pàgines
...before the congregation, the Levites are said to have caused the people to understand the law, because "they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading," Neh. viii. 8. Which constant interpretation begat at last a Chaldee translation of the old testament... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - 1823 - 144 pàgines
...you in his word ? 161. What an the advantages of rightly attending to the written or dispensed word ? So they read in the book in the law of GOD distinctly,...gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced... | |
 | Reuben Percy - 1823 - 432 pàgines
...book of the law, and, after addressing a prayer to the Deity, to which the people said Amen, " read in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."* Previous to the time of Ezra, the Patriarchs delivered, in public assemblies, either prophecies or... | |
 | John Jones (perpetual curate of Cradley, Worcs.) - 1824 - 104 pàgines
...custom of expounding the Hebrew Scriptures in the Chaldaic dialect, after the Babylonian captivity. " So they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Neb,, viii, 8. * Here we find the nature and the mode of preaching or expounding the word of God at... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pàgines
...the people to understand the law, and the people stood in their place : so they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. — Neb. viii. 1 — 9. xiii. 1. He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel,... | |
 | John Strype - 1824 - 778 pàgines
...which is set forth in the book of Nehemiah. Where it is said, 7%£ Levites did read in the book of the law of God " distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to under" stand the reading. If we heard this kind of reading at " the mouths of our ministers, we neither... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1825 - 766 pàgines
...the authentic testimony of Nehemiah : ' And the Levites caused the people to understand the law : — So they read in the book, in the Law of God, distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading.' [Ch. viii. 7, 8.] Which words the doctors of the Talmud illustrate with this interpretation : ' So... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pàgines
...his infancy. The, custom of interpreting Scripture in the church is mentioned Nehem. viii. 8, 9. ' they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,...the sense, and caused them to understand the reading : and Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught... | |
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So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 
