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At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
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An Invitation to the Table
Commentators explain that Boaz's invitation to Ruth was an exceptional act of kindness. He invited her, a foreign widow, to share his personal meal of bread, sour wine (vinegar), and roasted grain. This went beyond the legal requirement to allow gleaning, showing personal care and acceptance.
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Ruth
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18th Century
Theologian
To dip the morsel, or sop, whether it was bread or meat, in the dish containing the vinegar (Mark 14:20; Numbers 7:13) was,…
19th Century
Bishop
At meal-time. —This should apparently be joined to what precedes: Boaz now shows a fresh act of kindness.
Vinegar.…
17th Century
Pastor
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Minister
The devout and kind language between Boaz and his reapers shows that there were godly people in Israel. Such language as this is rarely heard in ou…