Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-01-27
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NOTES.
Yer. 1.-The last sentence of the pre-
ceding chapter stands in close connection
with this, and should be joined to it, so
as to read: "And the seventh month
came, and the children of Israel were in
their cities, and all the people assembled
as one man in the square," etc. AS the
wall was finished in Elul, the sixth
month Chapter 6 l5) of the twentieth
year of the reign of Artaxerxes, it Is
probable that it was the next following
month (the seventy of the same year
(about B. G. 445) in which occurred the
solemnlty that forms the subject of our
lesson. Al the people,: probably all
that could come. not only men and wom-
en-, but children they focked to Jerusa-
lem, perhaps to celebrate the finishing
of the wall, perhaps at the call of Ezra,
to be instructed in the law. Into the
street that aoaS before tie aOater gate ::
probably in that space which was after
wards called the court of the Gentiles.
The water gate was the gate through
which water was brought for the temple
sacrifices. Yer. 2.-Ezra the priest !:
Here Ezra is called the priest as else
where, also in the books of Ezra and
Nehemiah Gin verse of our chapter
! both titles. priest and SCRIBE" are CIV
en- him); his priestly genealogy is given
in Ezra 7:l-5. The two titles seem to
be used of him Unfortunately. but it
was as scribe that he did his great work
t Probably many of the priests, during
and after the exile in Babylon. devoted
themselves to this regular and earnest
study of the law. All that could hea'
qcith understanding He undertook te
explain the law to the congregation, moi
, only adults, (naen and a0omen), but also
8 to children. for it is probably they wht
are meant by the phrase, all that coutc
hear auth understanding. Here is re
t markable popular enthusiasm, embracing
both sexes and all ages; the people be
. lieved that their hope and salvation wer,
q in understanding the law of God ; it wa
the idea of the Sunday school, the who'll
people gathered to study Gods word
: The first day Of the seventh month";: TIL
# first day of the civil year, New Year
Day, on which was held the feast o
d trumpets Oev. %: "a, 15); here, how
ever, the peoples attention is absorbe,
in another matter (and compare verse
ID 9-l2). 1t appears that the formal ded
= ication of the wall az: 3l-43) was post
,r poned the instruction was completed
\ the exact interval of time between tn
two is not stated Yer. 3.-From morn
y ing until midday: In the Hebrew tn
N words are, from the light, that is, fror
id sunrise, antiI noon. The Tenth of tim
at this season of the year was about ST
NJ hours, in which time one could rea
:, about one third of the law (omitting tn
~ book of Genesis). Yer. 4.-Pulpit {
L acood: platform is better term hel
ep than pulpit. 1t was sufficiently Iarg
j. for several to stand upon. Thirteen al
b. mentioned that stood on it with Err;
- Yer. 5.-AN the people stood up: I'll
o. people stood up in reverence TO God
ad word, and in respect to his servant. til
IN reader. Yer. Title Levites cause
the people to understand the laao: Tn
phrase refers to the translation of VIII;
Ezra read in Hebrew, into the mike
al Chaldea dialect, which had become tt
re vernacular tongue during the captivity
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