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They read, to wit, Ezra and his companions successively or severally.
Gave the sense; i.e. the meaning of the Hebrew words, which they expounded in the common language.
Caused them to understand the reading, i.e. that which they read, to wit, the Holy Scripture; the action being put for the object, as vision is oft put for the thing seen, and hearing for the thing heard, and fear for the thing feared. So they gave them both a translation of the Hebrew words into the Chaldee, and an exposition of the things contained in them, and of the duty incumbent upon the people by virtue of them, the declaration whereof was a great part of the priest’s work, Mal_2:7.