(13) В¶ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law.
How blessed is it to follow up the sabbath day's employment in the study of God's word with the next day's attention, bringing to remembrance what we then heard. When the parlour or the kitchen, or those who have neither, make the chamber an echo to the sanctuary, and rehearse among their household, or their friends, or acquaintance, what they heard on the preceding sabbath concerning Jesus. And what encouragement is there to this in God's blessed word! The prophets tells us that they that feared the name of the Lord were often talking one to another; and the Lord hearkened and heard it. And the Evangelist tells us that while the disciples of Jesus were talking of him by the way, Jesus himself drew near and went with them. Luke 24:15. Reader! depend upon it, when Jesus, in the sweetness and preciousness of his name, is in the mouth and upon the lips, from the abundance of the heart awakened by grace, the Lord will bless such edifying conversation, and impart greater degrees of knowledge both to speaker and hearer. See Malachi 3:16-17; Luke 24:14-15.