 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 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. was to render the Scripture as plain and intelligible to the people as they could, and not to hide... | |
 | 1826 - 1036 pages
...¡»coplelo understand the law . and the people stood in their place. d* 8 Ho they rean in the book thee ? 12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away ? and what do than lo understand the reading. d 9 IT And Nehemiah, which i'j the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - Bible - 1826 - 422 pages
...the priests and the Levites caused the people to understand the law ;—Jlnd 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 that... | |
 | Bernard Whitman - Bible - 1827 - 214 pages
...caused 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. And Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people —... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...which they had made for the purpose ; and beside him stood Mattithia, &c. &c. So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. MAI., ii. 7: For the priest's lip* should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth;... | |
 | Adam Clarke - Sermons - 1827 - 288 pages
...HIS WORK, A DISCOURSE ON 1 CORINTHIANS XIV, 3. BY ADAM CLARKE, LL. D. < ' 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, 8. A DISCOURSE, * ' He who prophesielh, speaketh unto men to edification, and to exhoriWion,... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...the people to understand the law, 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,... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 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 read" ing." (Nehemiah viii. 1 — 8.) Some Jewish writers are of opinion, that the origin of publickly... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...worshipped the Lord, with their 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 hav° been peculiarly present. The whole assembly "wept when, they heard... | |
 | Alexander Nicoll - Apologetics - 1830 - 408 pages
...understand it," as we find in the book of Nehemiah k , where it is added, "So they read in.the book, in the law of God, distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading1," ie in the language which they had learned during the captivity. Nor had the captivity less... | |
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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. 
