 | Ralph Barnes - 1821 - 228 pages
...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... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pages
...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, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading," Neh. viii. 8. Which constant interpretation begat at last a Chaldee translation of the old... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...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, and gave the 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... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Autographs - 1823 - 442 pages
...truth or falsehooH ~f 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... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Catechisms, English - 1823 - 144 pages
...an the advantages of rightly attending to the written or dispensed word ? So they read in the book in the law of GOD distinctly, and 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... | |
 | John Jones (perpetual curate of Cradley, Worcs.) - 1824 - 104 pages
...Hebrew Scriptures in the Chaldaic dialect, after the Babylonian captivity. " So they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and gave the 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... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 530 pages
...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... | |
 | John Strype - England - 1824 - 778 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 854 pages
...Lévites are said to have caused the people to understand the law, because " they read in the book., in the law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.1' (Neh. viii. 8.)1 Some time after the return from die great captivity, Hebrew ceased to be... | |
 | John Milton - Theology, Doctrinal - 1825 - 472 pages
...custom of interpreting Scripture in the church is mentioned Nehem. viii. 8, 9. ' 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... | |
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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. 
