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Ruth 3
The Message of the Book of Ruth
Ruth 3:9
In speaking of the message which this little book has for us, we shall treat it as conveying to us a message of redemption. Looked at in this light the book has, I think, these things to tell us:—
I. It tells us that the range of God's grace is ever wider than our conception of it. The book of Ruth shows us how one who was a member of an idolatrous people, one who was a Gentile, an alien from the commonwealth of Israel, a stranger from the covenant of promise, having no hope and without God in the world, was actually brought into the number of the chosen people, and became one of the direct line of which the Messiah came.
In the old time, as in the new, God's salvation, though reaching men through channels of His own appointing, was open to all who cared to avail themselves of it.
II. The second thing about redemption which this book tells us Ruth 3:10
This text, in its Latin form, "Priorem misericordiam posteriore superasti," has been placed on a tablet in the porch of the ancient church of Guingamp in Brittany, to commemorate the blessings received during a recent mission.
Reference.—IV:1-22.—S. Cox, The Book of Ruth , p123.
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