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The period of the judges was an evil one, requiring hard words for hard times. The people of Israel had rejected their God for the desire of an earthly ruler, and had rebelled against his laws. Yet even in this time of unbelief and hypocrisy, God raised up men and women to call his people back to a personal faith in the living God. The author, in taking us through the books of Judges and Ruth,...

and should not be understood. It is often applied to ‘romantic’ love, when in fact there is no romantic love in the text. As Edersheim put it, ‘Only the sternest prose of poverty is before her.’ Naomi had been completely candid about her prospects if she should come with her and Ruth’s choice is intelligible only in terms of her conversion to the Lord and consequent faith-commitment to his people. Ruth’s confession is a confession of faith and of what we call Christian love (Gk., agape). There is,
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