Written by Henry Alford

Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions

by Henry Alford

The Scribes were the guardians of the law, and its readers and expounders to the people.  It is related of Ezra, that he was “a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given: he had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.”  But in exercising thi..