Gave the sense - Either by rendering the Hebrew into the Aramaic dialect, or perhaps simply by explaining obscure words or passages.

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Gave the sense. —They expounded more obscure passages, and, in doing so, naturally translated into the vernacular Aramaic…

So they read in the book
Ezra and those with him; he first began to read and expound, and when weary they relieved h…

Sacrifices were to be offered only at the door of the temple; but praying and preaching were, and are, services of religion, as acceptably performe…