Lev 19:9-10, Deu 16:11-14, 24:19-21, Rut 2:3-7, 15-23, Job 31:16-21 | TSK | STEP | ye reap the harvest.In what code of laws merely human, is a requisition to be found so counteracting to selfishness, so encouraging to liberality, and so beneficently considering to the poor and needy? But the Mosaic dispensation, like the Christian, breathed with love to God, and benevolence to man. To the honour of the public and charitable spirit of the English, this merciful law is, in general, as much attended to as if it had been incorporated with the gospel.

Leviticus 19:9-10

ye reap the harvest.In what code of laws merely human, is a requisition to be found so counteracting to selfishness, so encouraging to liberality, and so beneficently considering to the poor and needy? But the Mosaic dispensation, like the Christian, breathed with love to God, and benevolence to man. To the honour of the public and charitable spirit of the English, this merciful law is, in general, as much attended to as if it had been incorporated with the gospel.

23:29; De 24:19-21; Ru 2:2,15

glean.

Jud 8:2; Isa 17:6; 24:13; Jer 49:9; Ob 1:5; Mic 7:1

thou shalt.

25:6

Deuteronomy 16:11-14

14; 12:7,12,18; Isa 64:5; 66:10-14; Hab 3:18; Ro 5:11; 2Co 1:24

Php 4:4

15; 15:15; La 3:19,20; Ro 6:17,18; Eph 2:1-3,11

the feast.

31:10; Ex 23:16; 34:22; Le 23:34-36; Nu 29:12-40; 2Ch 5:3; 7:8-10

2Ch 8:13; Ezr 3:4; Ne 8:14-18; Zec 14:16-18; Joh 7:2

corn and thy wine. Heb. floor and thine wine-press.

12:12; 26:11; Ne 8:9-12; Ec 9:7; Isa 12:1-6; 25:6-8; 30:29; 35:10

1Th 5:16

Deuteronomy 24:19-21

When thou.

Le 19:9,10; 23:22; Ru 2:16; Ps 41:1

it shall be.

20,21; 14:29; 26:13

may bless.

15:10; Job 31:16-22; 42:12; Ps 41:1-3; 112:9; Pr 11:24,25; 14:21

Pr 19:17; Isa 32:8; 58:7-11; Lu 6:35,38; 14:13,14; 2Co 9:6-8

1Jo 3:17-19

go over the boughs again. Heb. bough it after thee.

gatherest.

19; Le 19:9,10

afterward. Heb. after thee.

Ruth 2:3-7

gleaned.

1Th 4:11,12; 2Th 3:12

hap was. Heb. hap happened.

2Ki 8:5; Es 6:1,2; Mt 10:29; Lu 10:31

The Lord.

Ps 118:26; 129:7,8; Lu 1:28; 2Th 3:16; 2Ti 4:22; 2Jo 1:10,11

And they.

4:11; Ge 18:19; Jos 24:15; Ps 133:1-3; 1Ti 6:2

4:21; 1Ch 2:11,12

the servant.This seems to have been a kind of steward, who had the under- management of the estate.

Ge 15:2; 24:2; 39:4; Mt 20:8; 24:45

It is the.

1:16,19,22

I pray.

Pr 15:33; 18:23; Mt 5:3; Eph 5:21; 1Pe 5:5,6

continued.

Pr 13:4; 22:29; Ec 9:10; Ro 12:11; Ga 6:9

in the house.It seems that the reapers were now resting in a tent, erected for that purpose; and that Ruth had just gone in with them, to take her rest also.

Ruth 2:15-23

glean.The word glean comes from the French {glaner} to gather ears or grains of corn. This was formerly a general custom in England and Ireland: the poor went into the fields, and collected the straggling ears of corn after the reapers; and it was long supposed that this was their right, and that the law recognized it; but although it has been an old custom, it is now settled by a solemn judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, that a right to glean in the harvest field cannot be claimed by any person at common law. Any person may permit or prevent it on his own grounds. By the Irish Acts, 25 Henry VIII. c. 1, and 28 Henry VIII. c. 24, gleaning and leasing are so restricted as to be in fact prohibited in that part of the United Kingdom.

reproach. Heb. shame.

Jas 1:5

De 24:19-21; Ps 112:9; Pr 19:17; Mt 25:40; Ro 12:13; 2Co 8:5-11

Phm 1:7; Heb 6:10; 1Jo 3:17,18

she gleaned.

Pr 31:27

ephah.

Ex 16:36; Eze 45:11,12

she had reserved.

14; Joh 6:12,13; 1Ti 5:4

blessed.

10; Ps 41:1; 2Co 9:13-15

Boaz.

1Ki 7:21

Blessed.

3:10; 2Sa 2:5; Job 29:12,13; 2Ti 1:16-18

hath not.

2Sa 9:1; Pr 17:17; Php 4:10

one of our. or, one that hath right to redeem.

3:9; 4:6; Le 25:25; De 25:5-7; Job 19:25

Thou shalt.

7,8,22; So 1:7,8

young men.The word {hannëârim} should be translated the servants; both male and female being included in it, the latter especially: see ver. 8, 22, 23.

Ruth.Ruth is said, by the Targumist, to have been the daughter of Eglon, king of Moab.

It is good.

Pr 27:10; So 1:8

meet. or, fall not upon thee.

Pr 6:6-8; 13:1,20; 1Co 15:33; Eph 6:1-3