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Ruth 3:10

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Ruth 3:10 · Douay-Rheims

“And he said: Blessed art thou of the Lord, my daughter, and thy latter kindness has surpassed the former: because thou hast not followed young men either poor or rich.”

Patristic before A.D. 750

457

A.D.

Theodoret of Cyrus Patristic

c. A.D. 393–457

“He praised Ruth's deed and, moreover, he did not betray temperance, but he kept to the law of nuptial congress. "You show by your deed," he said, "that this was not done out of voluptuousness. In fact, you might have gone to those who are young and blooming, with only the intent of enjoying voluptuousness, but you went to the man who stands in place of a father to you." Twice indeed, he calls her daughter.”

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Modern · 1953 →

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