For though they were called Synagogues, that is to say, Congregations of the People; yet in as much as the Law was every Sabbath day read, expounded, and disputed in them, they differed not in nature, but in name onely from Publique Schools; and were not onely in Jerusalem, but in every City of the Gentiles, where the Jews inhabited.
Izan ere, sinagogak zeritzen arren, hau da, herri batzarrak, Sabbath guztietan legea irakurri, azaldu eta eztabaidatzen zenez gero, izanean barik, izenean soilik zuten alderik eskola publikoekiko. Sinagogak Jerusalemen ezezik, Juduak bizi ziren jentil-hiri guztietan zeuden.