Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 2:16
Ruth 2:16 . Let fall also some of the handfuls What an amiable picture of piety and virtue in private life have we here in Boaz! In the midst of riches he is laborious, diligent in husbandry, plain without luxury, delicacy, sloth, or pride. How affable, obliging, and kind to his servants! The Lord be with you, says he, even to his reapers. What an obliging humanity, as well as generosity, does he show when he desires Ruth not to go into any other field to glean, but to abide fast by his... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ruth 2:14
Ruth 2:14. Eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar In the term bread is comprehended all the provision which was made for the reapers, with which they had vinegar for sauce, it being very cooling and refreshing in hot seasons, as the time of harvest there was. He reached her parched corn Which was a usual and no mean food in those countries, as appears from 2 Samuel 17:28. Either Boaz, or the servant set over the reapers, gave her this. It is no disparagement to the finest... read more