From Reformation to Reformation

HOLY FATHERS: Bede, Isidore, Theodoret. REFORMED: Borrhaus, Burman, Cuperus, Drusius, Gwalther,[1] Lavater,[2] Mercerus,[3] Wolf....

The two Parts of the book are: I. Ruth’s wretched state, chapters 1, 2: in which are: 1. The sojourning of Elimelech, and the fidelity of...

5. Two parts are exhibited. I. Ruth’s condition, poor and wretched (Ruth 1, 2). II. Her condition, happier and more joyful (Ruth 3, 4). A...

4. The chronology of the same. The history falls in the time of Ehud or Shamgar, about one hundred and twenty-eight years after the...

3. The argument and uses of the book. The argument of the book is plainly comic.[1] That is, it is a narration of the grievous trials and...

2. The author of this appears to be the same as of the Book of Judges. That the author of this book is Samuel, the Jews approve: but...

1. Ruth is an appendix to Judges. The name of the book. It is the Second of the Megilloth. The Book of Ruth is to a certain extent an...

Ruth is an appendix to Judges. The name of the book. It is the Second of the Megilloth, 1. The author of this appears to be the same as...

Verse 18:[1] Now these are the generations of Pharez: (1 Chron. 2:4, etc.; Matt.1:3) Pharez begat Hezron… [These are the generations of...

Verse 16:[1] And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it. Verse 17:[2] (Luke 1:58, 59) And the women her...

Verse 14:[1] And (Luke 1:58; Rom. 12:15) the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without (Heb....

Verse 13:[1] So Boaz (Ruth 3:11) took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, (Gen. 29:31; 33:5) the LORD gave her...

Verse 11:[1] And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. (Ps. 127:3; 128:3) The LORD make the...

Verse 9:[1] And Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was...

Verse 8:[1] Therefore the kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thee. So he drew off his shoe. [Which he immediately loosed] Hebrew: he...

Verse 7:[1] (Deut. 25:7, 9) Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm...

Verse 6:[1] (Ruth 3:12, 13) And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right...

Verse 5:[1] Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of...

Verse 4:[1] And I thought to advertise thee (Heb. I said I will reveal in thine ear[2]), saying, (Jer. 32:7, 8) Buy it (Gen. 23:18)...

Verse 3:[1] And he said unto the kinsman, Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our...