 | Bible - 1831 - 930 pages
...the people to understand the law : and the people stood in their place. 8 So they read in the book elighteth to honour. 10 Then the king saidto Haman, Make has than to understand the reading. 9 11 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...the book of the law, and, after addressing a prayer to the Deity, to which the people said Amen, " r in } reading." Previously to that time, the Patriarchs delivered, in public assemblies, either prophecies... | |
 | Stephen Merrill - Bible - 1832 - 472 pages
...the people to understand the law : and the people stood in their place. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 9 IT And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Lévites, caused the people to understand the law. So they read in the book into the swine, and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and we reading. AV. viii. 4 — 8. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law... | |
 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1832 - 652 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 • So Nonnus hath expressed, what in the evangelist is to be understood : MwTtiro'Xot У fpÉEiyov... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1833 - 340 pages
...bowed their heads, and worshipped 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 under. stand the reading." The priest, standing above the rest, commences the service—the congregation... | |
 | John Fletcher - Religion - 1833 - 674 pages
...Moses : that the ears of all the people were attentive to the book of the law : tlial the Levites did read in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense : and, that all the people went their way, &c, to make great mirth, because they had understood the words... | |
 | Joseph Bingham - Church history - 1834 - 574 pages
...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, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." And if all readers read, as Esdras did, they certainly either read, or interpreted the reading,... | |
 | Robert Burrowes - Sermons - 1834 - 274 pages
...And Ezra opened the book and " blessed th« Lord, the great God," and the Levites " read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Following this example of instructive devotion, our Church has in its Liturgy, worshipped... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
