Lùdéjì 2:13

13 Lùdé shuō , wǒ zhǔ a , yuàn zaì nǐ yǎnqián méng ēn . wǒ suīrán bú jí nǐde yī gè shǐnǚ , nǐ hái yòng cíaì de huà ānwèi wǒde xīn .

Lùdéjì 2:13 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 2:13

Then she said, let me find favour in thy sight, my lord
Or rather, since she had found favour in his sight already: the words are to be considered, not as a wish for it, but as acknowledging it, and expressing her faith and confidence, that she should for time to come find favour in his sight, and have other instances of it; for so the words may be rendered, "I shall find favour" ^F26, for which she gives the following reasons:

for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly
unto thine handmaid;
had spoken in her commendation, and wished her all happiness here and hereafter; said kind and comfortable words to her, to her very heart, as in ( Isaiah 40:2 ) which were cheering, refreshing, and reviving to her:

though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens;
not worthy to be one of them, or to be ranked with them, being meaner than the meanest of them, a poor widow, and a Moabitish woman; the Septuagint and Syriac versions leave out the negative particle, and read, "I shall be as one of thine handmaids".

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Nx auma) "inveniam gratiam", Pagninus, Montanus.

Lùdéjì 2:13 In-Context

11 Bōesī huídá shuō , zì cóng nǐ zhàngfu sǐ hòu , fán nǐ xiàng pópo suǒ xíng de , bìng nǐ líkāi fùmǔ hé bĕn dì , dào sù bú rènshi de mín zhōng , zhèxie shì rén quándōu gàosu wǒ le .

12 Yuàn Yēhéhuá zhào nǐ suǒ xíng de shǎngcì nǐ . nǐ lái tóukào Yēhéhuá Yǐsèliè shén de chìbǎng xià , yuàn nǐ mǎn dé tāde shǎngcì .

13 Lùdé shuō , wǒ zhǔ a , yuàn zaì nǐ yǎnqián méng ēn . wǒ suīrán bú jí nǐde yī gè shǐnǚ , nǐ hái yòng cíaì de huà ānwèi wǒde xīn .

14 Dào le chī fàn de shíhou , Bōesī duì Lùdé shuō , nǐ dào zhèlǐ lái chī bǐng , jiāng bǐng zhàn zaì cù lǐ . Lùdé jiù zaì shōugē de rén pángbiān zuò xià , tāmen bǎ hōng le de suì zǐ dìgĕi tā . tā chī bǎo le , hái yǒuyú shèng de .

15 Tā qǐlai yòu shí qǔ maìsuì , Bōesī fēnfu púrén shuō , tā jiù shì zaì kún zhōng shí qǔ maìsuì , yĕ kĕyǐ róng tā , bùkĕ xiūrǔ tā .