 | Robert Burrowes - 1834 - 274 pages
...MILITANT, &c.— SIX COLLECTS— BLESSING— CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS. NEHEMIAH VIII. 7—8. And the Levites caused the people to understand the law : and the...sense, and caused them to understand the reading. IN the chapter from which this text is taken we read that, after the return of the Children of Israel... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - 1834 - 574 pages
...known how Esdras read the law to them, by causing them to understand the reading. Neh. viii. 7, 8. " they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading." And if all readers read, as Esdras did, they certainly either read, or interpreted the reading, in... | |
 | 1834 - 640 pages
...peoole stood up." — And the priests and "the Levites caused the people to understand the Law." — " So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused the people to understand the reading."* 5. Besides, the written law is pronounced to be perfect, so... | |
 | 1834 - 846 pages
...the service, which lasted from morning to mid-day. The preachers alternately " read in the book of the law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading; and all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law." It is foreign from my purpose here... | |
 | George Croly - 1834 - 666 pages
...priests, who translated the precepts into the vernacular tongue :—" Levites, who read in the book of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading2." The day itself was remarkable, as the first of the seventh month, the beginning of the civil... | |
 | James Parsons - 1835 - 408 pages
...the congregation, and he read therein — 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. FROM these words I conceive that it may be inferred that, in reading and giving the sense of their... | |
 | Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pages
...which many of our fathers "suffered the loss of all things." A SERMON, &c. &c. NEHEMIAH viii. 8. " So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading." A TRULY enlightened and benevolent mind will always con templatca genuine moral Reformation, — whether... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1835 - 414 pages
...of the service, which lasted from morning to midday. The preachers alternately " read in the book of the law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading ; and all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law." It is foreign from my purpose here... | |
 | 1835 - 434 pages
...worshipped the Lord, with jheir faces to the ground. So Ezra and his assistants read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." The power of God seems to have been peculiarly present. The whole assembly " wept when they heard the... | |
 | John Francis Cleaver - 1835 - 208 pages
...lamin, Akkab, Shebbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Asariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites caused the people to understand the law : and the people stood in their place." The consequence was, that the people " wept when they heard the words of the law," nor was this a momentary... | |
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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. 
