CONTENTS As the history advanceth in its progress, the several particulars of it become more interesting. In this chapter we are introduced into the acquaintance of the hero of the subject, Boaz: and informed how Ruth became first brought acquainted with him. The events of a day are circumstantiall... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ruth the Moabitish said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter. Reader! if we apply this passage in a spiritual sense to the state of the soul (and I see no reason why we may not) it will... [ Continue Reading ]
And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech. Are not these reapers similar to the ministering servants of Jesus, who while gathering fruit for the Lord, leave sweet glean... [ Continue Reading ]
And, behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said unto the reapers, The LORD be with you. And they answered him, The LORD bless thee. What a beautiful picture is here given of the simplicity of ancient times, in the pious salutations which passed between Boaz and his servants. What an evident proof i... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Boaz unto his servant that was set over the reapers, Whose damsel is this? The enquiry of Boaz so immediately concerning Ruth, may serve to teach us how very early the eye of Jesus is upon airy and every poor stranger that comes under the ministry of his word, to glean instruction in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab: (7) And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said Boaz unto Ruth, Hearest thou not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens: (9) Let thine eyes be on the field that they do reap, and go thou after them: have I not charged the young men that they shall not touch thee? and when... [ Continue Reading ]
Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? How surprising are 'the first manifestations of the Lord Jesus to the heart of the sinner! While the poor creature, u... [ Continue Reading ]
And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been showed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. (12) The L... [ Continue Reading ]
Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens. Such, Reader, will be the invariable consequence in the soul's view of grace. Never doth a soul l... [ Continue Reading ]
And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left. The Lord Jesus delights that his table should be filled. He commands all seekin... [ Continue Reading ]
And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: (16) And let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not. There is a great beauty in this scripture... [ Continue Reading ]
So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah of barley. So do all laborers in the vineyard remain in their employment until.the evening of their day; and when the even of life is come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, call the... [ Continue Reading ]
And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed. Believers love to spread abroad the savor of Jesus' name; and, as the apostle speaks, are ready to distribute, and willing... [ Continue Reading ]
And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned today? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she showed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought today is Boaz. The enquiry of Naomi, and the pious a... [ Continue Reading ]
And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. How very sweet and interesting is this even as an history, considered in' the way of... [ Continue Reading ]
And Ruth the Moabitess said, He said unto me also, Thou shalt keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest. Delightful thought! Jesus not only gives plentifully and suitably to his distressed relations, but he enjoins them to come again and again, and not to go to glean in the fie... [ Continue Reading ]
And Naomi said unto Ruth her daughter in law, It is good, my daughter, that thou go out with his maidens, that they meet thee not in any other field. Believers in Jesus are sometimes called virgins, for their chaste and close adherence to him, as well as also for the singleness of their affection t... [ Continue Reading ]
So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law. It is one of the most important precepts of the gospel as well as the law, cleave unto him (that is, the Lord) for he is thy life. Deuteronomy 13:4. And certain it... [ Continue Reading ]