Lùdéjì 2:18

18 Tā jiù bǎ suǒ shí qǔ de daì jìn chéng qù gĕi pópo kàn , yòu bǎ tā chī bǎo le suǒ shèng de gĕi le pópo .

Lùdéjì 2:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ruth 2:18

And she took it up
The ephah of barley, into her arms, or on her shoulders:

and went into the city;
the city of Bethlehem;

and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned:
she set it down before her, and she looked at it with admiration, that she should glean so much in one day:

and she brought forth;
not Naomi, as Josephus ^F11 represents it, who understood it as if she brought forth some food her neighbours had brought her, part of which she kept for Ruth, though he takes it in the other sense also; but the meaning is, that Ruth brought forth out of a scrip, as the Targum adds; besides the ephah of barley she set before her, she brought some victuals out of a bag:

and gave to her, that she had reserved after she was sufficed;
not that she ate of the barley, and her mother-in-law also; and then she gave her the rest to lay up against another time, as some interpret it; but the remainder of the food which Boaz gave her at dinner time, which she could not eat, ( Ruth 2:14 ) she reserved for her mother, and now gave it to her; an instance of that piety commended by the apostle, ( 1 Timothy 5:4 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F11 Antiqu l. 5. c. 9. sect. 2.

Lùdéjì 2:18 In-Context

16 Bìng yào cóng kún lǐ chōu chū xiē lái , liú zaì dì xià rén tā shí qǔ , bùkĕ chì xià tā .

17 Zhèyàng , Lùdé zaì tiánjiān shí qǔ maìsuì , zhídào wǎnshang , jiāng suǒ shí qǔ de dá le , yuē yǒu yī yīfǎ dàmaì .

18 Tā jiù bǎ suǒ shí qǔ de daì jìn chéng qù gĕi pópo kàn , yòu bǎ tā chī bǎo le suǒ shèng de gĕi le pópo .

19 Pópo wèn tā shuō , nǐ jīnrì zaì nǎli shí qǔ maìsuì , zaì nǎli zuò gōng ne , yuàn nà gù xù nǐde dé fú . Lùdé jiù gàosu pópo shuō , wǒ jīnrì zaì yī gè míng jiào Bōesī de rén nàli zuò gōng .

20 Ná é mǐ duì ér fù shuō , yuàn nà rén méng Yēhéhuá cì fú , yīnwei tā bù duàn dì ēn dāi huó rén sǐ rén . ná é mǐ yòu shuō , nà shì wǒmen bĕn zú de rén , shì yī gè zhì jìn de qīnshǔ .