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<p class="tab-1">There is scarcely any chapter in all the sacred history that stoops so low as this to take cognizance of so mean a person as Ruth, a poor Moabitish widow, so mean an action as her gleaning corn in a neighbour’s field, and the minute circumstances thereof. But all this was in order to her being grafted into the line of Christ and taken in among his ancestors, that she might be a figure of the espousals of the Gentile church to Christ, <a class="bibleref" title="Isa.54.1" href="/passage/?search=Isa.54.1">Isa. 54:1</a>. This makes the story remarkable; and many of the passages of it are instructive and very improvable. Here we have, I. Ruth’s humility and industry in gleaming corn, Providence directing her to Boaz’s field, <a class="bibleref" title="Ruth.2.1-Ruth.2.3" href="/passage/?search=Ruth.2.1-Ruth.2.3">Ruth 2:1-3</a>. II. The great favour which Boaz showed to her in many instances, <a class="bibleref" title="Ruth.2.4-Ruth.2.16" href="/passage/?search=Ruth.2.4-Ruth.2.16">Ruth 2:4-16</a>. III. The return of Ruth to her mother-in-law, <a class="bibleref" title="Ruth.2.18-Ruth.2.23" href="/passage/?search=Ruth.2.18-Ruth.2.23">Ruth 2:18-23</a>.</p>
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