 | 1875 - 492 pages
...occasion deserve to stand together as cause and effect — " They read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading" (Nehemiah viii. 8). Then before many days had been passed in this exercise the princes, Levites and... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1861 - 716 pages
...not immediately relating to the solemnity in question. " So they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." That a thorough analysis or exposition of the text accompanied the reading is, according to Dr. Clarke,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1842 - 546 pages
...understand the la\v ; 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. — Neh. viii. 1 — 9; xiii. 1. He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded... | |
 | John Wesley Etheridge - Aramaic language - 1843 - 260 pages
...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 obtained in the synagogues... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - Bible - 1843 - 348 pages
...teach you the good and the right way. Neh. viii. 8. The Levites read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. See ver. 5, 6. Isa. viii. 20. To the law and to the testimony, Sec. xxviii. 10. Precept must be upon... | |
 | James Smith - Bible - 1843 - 728 pages
...the people out of the book of the law ; for, it is said, " they read in the book of the law of God distinctly, and gave, the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." The assembly must have been very large, and the persons thus employed must have placed themselves in... | |
 | Edward Scobell - Dissenters, Religious - 1843 - 92 pages
...his 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 the people's hearts were melted at the preaching; and they thought of their sins and wept." (Nehemiah... | |
 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1843 - 500 pages
...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 be read every... | |
 | Sketch - 1843 - 312 pages
...Christian dispensation. Under the Mosaic law it was said, " They read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading," Nehemiah viii. 8. Were it not required to know what is stated, the gift of tongues on the day of Pentecost... | |
 | William James E. Bennett - Christian life - 1843 - 420 pages
...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 restoration... | |
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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. 
