6. "Commentary on Ruth 2:12". Naomi said to her, “Go ahead, my daughter.” 3 So she went out, entered a field and began to glean behind the harvesters. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wen/ruth-2.html. Let us "look to ourselves that we lose not the things that we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward." Cross References 1 Samuel 24:19 For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him get away safely? Ruth 2:12 Context. Many Papists, and some as silly, have shrunk up good works to a hand-breadth, to giving of alms. Come, let us pluck up courage, and encourage every Ruth when she is timid among strangers. 5. Note the order of these three words for a spiritual application. She felt herself to be alone, though under the wings of Israel’s God. 3. All Rightes Reserved, Larry Pierce, Winterbourne, Ontario.A printed copy of this work can be ordered from: The Baptist Standard Bearer, 1 Iron Oaks Dr, Paris, AR, 72855. When Providence had made her poor, she cheerfully stoops to her lot. The similarity of expression here to Genesis 15:1, and in Rth 2:11 to Genesis 12:1, makes it probable that Boaz had the case of Abraham in his mind. The Lord recompense thy work, &c. — Thy dutiful kindness to thy mother-in-law, and thy leaving thy country and kindred, and all things, to embrace the true religion. Mighty to destroy. It is this continued emphasis that indicates that part of the reason for the account was in order to indicate to would be proselytes that they could be totally accepted into Israel. There is in this world a present recompense for the godly, notwithstanding the fact that many are the afflictions of the righteous. Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible. She was a genuine proselyte and as such one of the children of Israel by adoption (Exodus 12:48). 1:5). Joel 2:1-2, 12-17 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Estimates for the dates of the book of Joel range from the ninth century to the second century B.C., but most scholars agree that this is a post-exilic book—written after Cyrus of Persia freed the Jewish exiles from their Babylonian captivity in 538 B.C. An allusion, either to hens, which protect and cherish their young ones under their wings; or to the wings of the cherubim, between which God dwelt. Chuck Smith :: Sermon Notes for Ruth 2:12 ← Back to Chuck Smith's Bio & Resources Intro: Ten years earlier, Naomi (God is sweetness) with her husband Elimelech and their two sons, because of a famine, went to Moab to live, not long after their arrival, Elimelech died, sons married Moabites, but … 1. BibliographyClarke, Adam. Ruth 2:11-12 King James Version (KJV). what figure sets forth this full reward? (a) It was so when she became his wife, which he little thought of, when he thus heartily prayed for her, but especially when she came to heaven; whither that proud merit monger never came who said, Caelum gratis non accipiam, If I may not earn heaven, I will never have it of free gift. It has been estimated that, in the ten years of a swallow’s life, it flies far enough to have gone round the world eighty-nine times, so great is its velocity. These birds, when trained, had in them the dart of the lightning. Joseph Benson's Commentary. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down. The carrier-pigeons were the telegraphs of the olden time. Benson Commentary. Ruth 2:12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust. Ruth desired to receive God’s blessing of productivity, whether from God himself (Ruth 2:12) or through a human being “in whose sight I might find favor” (Ruth 2:2). Nothing could be more sublimely descriptive of dedication to the service of the true God--committing oneself to Him for providential protection and salvation, and seeking the loving fellowship of His Church--than “coming to trust beneath Jehovah’s wings.” (A. Thomson, D. D.). And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.
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