Today's Favorite Verse: Nehemiah 8:8-10

Today's Favorite Verse: Nehemiah 8:8-10
"So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading."

"gave the sense" = gave a commentary by the power of the Holy Ghost

As the scriptures were read to the people it was given distinctly and with commentary. It was so the people could truly be taught and understand. The scriptures were opened up to the them by the Holy Ghost.

"Behold, my brethren, he that prophesieth, let him prophesy to the understanding of men; for the Spirit speaketh the truth and lieth not. Wherefore, it speaketh of things as they really are, and of things as they really will be; wherefore, these things are manifested unto us plainly, for the salvation of our souls. But behold, we are not witnesses alone in these things; for God also spake them unto prophets of old.
But behold, the Jews were a stiffnecked people; and they despised the words of plainness, and killed the prophets, and sought for things that they could not understand. Wherefore, because of their blindness, which blindness came by looking beyond the mark, they must needs fall; for God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they desired it God hath done it, that they may stumble."
(Jacob 4:13-14)

What the Lord had given was hard to understand. It is through the spirit that understanding comes. It's also important that those reading the scriptures and opening them up were men of God.

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