 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1843 - 500 pages
...said to have caused the people to Neh. viii. 8. 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. Which constant interpretation begat at last a Chaldee translation of the Old Testament to... | |
 | William James E. Bennett - Christian life - 1843 - 420 pages
...changed. In the eighth chapter of Nehemiah, verse 8, we find it said, that " They read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." Here we find two remarkable facts, the preservation of the Scriptures, and their immediate... | |
 | John Wesley Etheridge - Aramaic language - 1843 - 260 pages
...tongue. Thus we are told, that "while the people stood in their place, the Levites read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." (Neh. viii. 7, 8.) This was probably done after the same manner which it is certainly known... | |
 | 1913 - 1326 pages
...and the Priests stood before them to instruct them. This is the passage: "So they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." This verse is a perfect treatise in a sentence of the art of reading aloud. Let our young... | |
 | Israel Zinberg - Literary Criticism - 1975 - 438 pages
...persons may also understand, and thereby the Biblical verse be fulfilled: "So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading" (Nehemiah 8:8).6' And the Sefer Hasidim teaches: If a Jew who does not understand Hebrew but... | |
 | Roland Mushat Frye - Bibles - 1978 - 644 pages
...caused 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 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Lévites that... | |
 | John W. Nutt - 276 pages
...Herzfeld, iii. 76; and the article on 'Writing' in Smith's Diet. iii. 1788. 1 ' They read in the book, in the Law of God distinctly and gave the sense, and caused (them) to understand the reading.' Herzfeld (iii. 58) does not so interpret the passage ; he thinks that Hebrew was still spoken... | |
 | Zondervan - Bible - 1984 - 940 pages
...caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place. 8 So they read in the book reading. 9 11 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Lévites... | |
 | A.M.O. Dobbie - Religion - 1993 - 169 pages
...flame of charity, and gradually to arouse in them the hope of eternity. 20 'So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.' 21 Hendrich quotes an order of the Unity of the Moravian Brethren to the same effect X. Lastly... | |
 | Avi Erlich - Religion - 2010 - 298 pages
...forgetfulness. Ezra and Nehemiah permit them to wipe their tears and to celebrate: 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 . . . said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the Lord... | |
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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. 
