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Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother`s house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
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A Portrait of Selfless Love
Multiple commentators highlight Naomi's profound selflessness. Although the company of Orpah and Ruth was a great comfort to her, she urged them to return home for what she believed was their own temporal good. Her actions model a powerful, unselfish love that prioritizes the well-being of others over personal solace.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Accompanying their mother-in-law to the borders of their own land would probably be an act of Eastern courtesy. Naomi with no less courtesy presses…
19th Century
Anglican
Return. —Naomi’s love is entirely unselfish. The company of Ruth and Orpah would clearly have been a great solace to her, yet she …
Baptist
Separation was painful to them, for they loved their mother-in-law, a most unselfish person who, even though it was a comfort to her to enjoy their…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Naomi said to her two daughters in law When they were come, as it is very probable, to the utmost limits of the …
Naomi began to think of returning after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it should reform what is wrong there. Earth is m…
