...of salvation. And we find it in scripture performed by the teachers of the people, Neh. viii. 8 ; * So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading.' Ver. 2, 3. ' And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and...

...that " thirteen othtrs " also, besides the Levites, read to " the people, at that time, in the book of the law of God distinctly, "and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading ?" * That it is probable that the supper was more frequently dispensed than the sacrament of circumcision...

...hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground. Ver. 8. So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,— 158. * 1 Tim. iii. 2. A bishop then mast be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, ofgo.,d...

...evident that before the captivity all their copies were written \vith the vowels. Ezra, ch. viii. 8. so they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and gare t fie sense, and cautrd them to understand the reading. But it was not possible to give the sense,...

...hearing," or that could hear with understanding, were collected ; "and they read in the book of the law distinctly ; and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading." It thus appears that the " Book of the Law" was an old - in fact, almost an obsolete, book — about...

...and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law : and the people si onil in their place. 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 9 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught...

...in the sight of all the people ; and he, with some other of his brethren that assisted him herein, read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and...sense, and caused them to understand the reading, that is, the meaning thereof, Neh. viii. 4, — 8. In like manner our Saviour went into the synagogue...

...in the sight of all the people ; and he, with some other of his brethren that assisted him herein, read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and...sense, and caused them to understand the reading, that is, the meaning thereof, Nth. viiu 4, — 8. In like manner our Saviour -went into the synagogue...

...The solemn keeping of the t'i• ir of tabernarles, according to the law, ver. 13— 18. VER. 8. " So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading."] — Observe, the religious exercises performed in this assembly were not ceremonial, but moral, praying,...

...Ammon, and Moab ; that the account of the sacred historian respecting Ezra and his associates, who " read in the book, " in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, " and caused the people to understand the law," imports an exposition in the same language, not an interpretation...