 | Montagu Powell - Philosophy - 1996 - 136 pages
...assembled people, and we find that they, j'.f. the Levites under Ezra's direction, " read in the Book of the Law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Now, it is inconceivable to me that a people just emerging from the high civilisation of... | |
 | Religion - 1997 - 260 pages
...caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave 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... | |
 | Jonathan N. Barron, Eric Murphy Selinger - American poetry - 2000 - 364 pages
...bowed their heads, and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. And Nehemiah . . . and Ezra the priest, the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people,... | |
 | Douglas Wilson - Religion - 2001 - 290 pages
...caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading" (Neh. 8:78). The teaching of Scripture on this point is very clear. God requires uninspired... | |
 | Jane Donawerth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2002 - 402 pages
...men. There must be no flippant, reckless reading. Read it as Nehemiah says: "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."™ The law of the Lord must be written on the heart51 of the minister if he would impress... | |
 | Arthur W. Pink - Religion - 2002 - 144 pages
...interpreter's task is to emulate those described in Nehemiah 8:8, of whom it is said, "they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading," and to do that the preacher must needs spend many hours every week in his study. Each word... | |
 | Douglas Anderson - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 314 pages
...preaching as a public exercise in the explication of a complex text: "And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Accordingly, Perkins and his radical colleagues viewed the preacher not so much as the primary... | |
 | Hughes Oliphant Old - Religion - 2002 - 582 pages
...the Lord the great God and all the people answered. Amen, Amen. . . . And they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense and caused them to undersrand the reading" (Neh. 8:4-6 and 8} (p. 640). 12 This was one of the key passages of Sctiprure... | |
 | Kimberli Ayers - Religion - 2003 - 110 pages
...or lack, He is the presence that gives us fullness of joy. Nehemiah 8:8-10 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave 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... | |
 | Cristina E. Rodriguez - Religion - 2003 - 266 pages
...8:8-9 tells of an account where he gathered the whole town together and ". . .they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Then what happened? "...all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law." The law... | |
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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. 
