 | George Croly - Bible - 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... | |
 | Apologetics - 1834 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pages
...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, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." A TRULY enlightened and benevolent mind will always con templatca genuine moral Reformation,... | |
 | James Parsons - 1835 - 408 pages
...read therein — 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 them to understand the reading. FROM these words I conceive that it may be inferred that, in reading and giving the sense... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Christian biography - 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... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1836 - 480 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. vui. 8.)1 Some time after the return from the great captivity, Hebrew ceased to be spoken... | |
 | Edward Murray - Apocryphal books (Old Testament) - 1836 - 428 pages
...law in the sight of all the people, it was necessary to interpret it. " The Levites read in the book in the law of God " distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them " to understand the reading." (Neh. viii. 5. 8 ) Nor can it be supposed that the circumstances of the nation afterwards... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1836 - 428 pages
...direct sanction of his authority to the Levites, when they taught the people, and read in the book, in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading — All marking, that, in these days, it was held a duty and a propriety in the rulers of the... | |
 | Ebenezer Henderson - Bible - 1836 - 594 pages
...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. viii. 1—8.) They again assembled daily for a whole week for the same purpose; and... | |
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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. 
