Ruth 2

Introduction

RUTH GLEANING IN THE FIELD OF BOAZ, Ruth 2:1-23.

This chapter affords us a perfect picture of an oriental harvest scene. The traveller who at the present day passes, in the harvest time, through the fields of Beth-lehem, is struck with delight at beholding the rural incidents of the Book of Ruth passing in actual reality before his eyes. He sees vast numbers of reapers cutting barley, and companies of women and children gleaning behind them. He hears the salutations between master and servants in the very words of Boaz and his reapers. Here and there a company of reapers may be seen under a temporary booth taking their refreshment, and ready to extend to the traveller handfuls of parched corn; and at evening time the maidens sit down by the wayside and with a stick or a stone beat out what they have been gleaning through the day.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

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Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel Whedon was born in 1808 in Onondaga, N.Y. Dr. Whedon was well qualified as a commentator. He was professor of Ancient Languages in Wesleyan University, studied law and had some years of pastoral experience. He was editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review for more than twenty years. Besides many articles for religious papers he was also the author of the well-known and important work, Freedom of the Will. Dr. Whedon was noted for his incisive, vigorous style, both as preacher and writer. He died at Atlantic Highlands, N.J., June 8, 1885.Whedon was a pivotal figure in the struggle between Calvinism and Arminianism in the nineteenth-centry America. As a result of his efforts, some historians have concluded that he was responsible for a new doctrine of man that was more dependent upon philosophical principles than scripture.... Show more

Dr. Daniel D. Whedon was a central figure in the struggle between Calvinism and Arminianism. He devoted 25 years to writing the New Testament commentaries. Other authors wrote the Old Testament commentaries with Whedon serving as the editor. Study the bible online.... Show more

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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

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