Hearers

It’s left many “hearers” anxious and depressed, and has been linked to several suicides.

Saint John Chrysostom expressed this pointedly when he challenged his Christian hearers: ‘Do you wish to honor the body of the Savior?

The multitudes of all sects and denominations that attended his sermons were enormous, and it was a matter of speculation to me, who was one of the number, to observe the extraordinary influence of his oratory on his hearers.

But my hearers never turned a hair.

For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.

He then reads off references that his hearers are challenged to check.

Indeed, after the Ascension of the Lord the Apostles handed on to their hearers what He had said and done.

I venture to impress upon my hearers that the great work of peace is resting not only on the narrow interests of our own nations, but even more on those great principles of right and wrong which nations, like individuals, depend.

Jeremiah 28, The Jewish Study Bible, Oxford University Press, 2004 Likewise, Isaiah was told by his hearers who rejected his message, "Leave the way!

Linguists will make distinctions within these categories; for example, the audience can be distinguished as addressees and other hearers.

Odyssey xi.582-92; Tantalus' transgressions are not mentioned; they must already have been well known to Homer's late-8th-century hearers.

She begged her hearers to forgive her if she had not used them all with becoming gentleness, and asked for their prayers.

The dynastic rite of the witnessed birth must have been familiar to the hymn's hearers.

The New Testament describes tongues largely as speech addressed to God, but also as something that can potentially be interpreted into human language, thereby "edifying the hearers" (1 Cor 14:5,13).

This suggests an imminent end but he is unspecific about times and seasons, and encourages his hearers to expect a delay.