And Ruth said, entreat me not to leave thee, or to return
from
following after thee
Do not make use of any arguments to persuade me to go back: or
"do not meet me", or "be against me" F8; do not meet me with
objections, or be in my way, or an hinderance to me, in going
along with thee; do not be against it, for to be against that was
to be against her inclination, desires, and resolutions, and
against her interest:
for whither thou goest I will go:
let the country she was going to be what it would, though unknown
to her, and though she should never see her own country any more:
and where thou lodgest I will lodge;
though in ever so mean a cottage, or under the open air:
thy people shall be my people;
whom I shall choose to dwell among, and converse with; whose
religion, laws, and customs she should readily comply with,
having heard much of them, their wisdom, goodness, and piety, of
which she had a specimen and an example in Naomi, and by whom she
judged of the rest:
and thy God my God;
not Chemosh, nor Baalpeor, nor other gods of the Moabites, be
they what they will, but Jehovah, the God of Naomi, and of the
people of Israel. So a soul that is truly brought to Christ
affectionately loves him, and heartily cleaves unto him, resolves
in the strength of divine grace to follow him, the Lamb,
whithersoever he goes or directs; and is desirous to have
communion with none but him, and that he also would not be as a
wayfaring man, that tarries but a night; his people are the
excellent of the earth, whom to converse with is all his delight
and pleasure; and Christ's God is his God, and his Father is his
Father: and, in a word, he determines to have no other Saviour
but him, and to walk in all his commands and ordinances.