Ruth 2

The form of swearing, I call God to witness to (or upon) my soul (2 Corinthians 1:23), expresses the third part, namely invocation. The words (Ruth 2:17): The Lord do thus and thus to me, is an Imprecation. The common form, The Lord help you through Jesus Christ, is partly praye…

Second, I would particularly observe that wherein the virtuousness of this resolution consists, namely, that it was for the sake of the God of Israel, and that she might be one of his people, that she was thus resolved to cleave to Naomi: Your people shall be my people, and your…

These are not contradictory, but confirmatory each of other; one speaks of the principal, the other of the instrumental cause. Diligence without God's blessing will not do it; and that blessing cannot be expected without diligence; therefore husbandmen ply their business with un…

The good mistress looks well to the ways of her household (Proverbs 31:27). This is noted of Boaz, that he went to his field to see what his reapers did (Ruth 2:4). The eye of a master is a great motive to make a servant diligent and faithful: for thus he knows that both his dil…

Interpreter: Your setting out is good, for you have given credit to the truth; you are a Ruth, who did, for the love she bore to Naomi and to the Lord her God, leave father and mother, and the land of her nativity, to come out and go with a people she knew not heretofore. "The L…