...language in communicating the scriptures to the people. The verse of Nehemiah in our version runs thus : " So they read in the book, in the law of God distinctly,...sense, and caused them to understand the reading." NOTE (47), PAGE 218. JOHN PEARSON, bishop of Chester, was the son of a clergyman in the county of Norfolk,...

...favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved, 89. n Nehem. viii. 8. So they read in the book in the law of God dis19 tinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. 1 Cor. xiv. 24. But if...

...Ezra caused the people to uo • K •ierstand the law. So they read in the book, in the law of GotL distinctly , and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the /reading. 9 And Nehenaiah, which is the Tirshatha, ao4 Ezra thepriest, the scribe, and the Levites that taught...

...and a mean 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...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...

...their 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...

...stedfastly in the apostles' doetrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. ( mj Neh. 8. 8. So they read in the book, in the law of God distinetly, and gave the sense, and eaused them to understand the reading. fnj 1 Cor. 14. 24, 25. But...

...appear 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...

...Pelaiah, 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...