Philo on the Weekly Reading of Scripture
He required them to assemble in the same place on these seventh days, and sitting together in a respectful and orderly manner hear the laws read so that none should be ignorant of them.
And indeed they do always assemble and sit together, most of them in silence except when it is the practice to add something to signify…
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