1 Timothy 4: 13
PROSEXE THi ANAGNWSEI
must mean "reading to others" i.e. reading out loud.
I found a fascinating book about the history of reading, but at $30, it was
a bit pricey for me. In the book, the writer points out that Augustine saw
Ambrose muttering quietly to himself while he was reading. Augustine found
this strange, because everybody else read as if they were reading to
others, i.e. audibly.
The book goes on to say that reading silently only became common around the
beginning of the second millennium.
I bet the great library of Alexandria was a noisy place!
I love reading my Greek testament aloud, and trying to read with
understanding.
However, I am unsure how to read passages that have a conjunction or
preposition as the second word!
I find memorisation difficult, much harder than when I was a child.
Passages become familiar, but I can't recite without a book in front of me.
David McKay
music@fl.net.au