“One who reads” is the one who is reciting the book to any particular church. Some reciters were in a church and would receive a text, more often they would travel from church to church, reciting the text in each church. These are blessed for continually reciting God’s word.
Thus, this blessing is less for the one who reads it to themselves-- reading to oneself was rare in the ancient world, and it seems that reading or praying silently was almost unknown until the fourth century AD. Rather the blessing is for the one who communicates the book to others.
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