Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 1:13

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 1:13 - 1:13

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 1:13 - 1:13

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the hand of the Lord is gone out against me - that is, I am not only not in a condition to provide you with other husbands, but so reduced in circumstances that I cannot think of your being subjected to privations with me. The arguments of Naomi prevailed with Orpah, who returned to her people and her gods. But Ruth clave unto her; and even in the pages of Sterne, that great master of pathos, there is nothing which so calls forth the sensibilities of the reader as the simple effusion he has borrowed from Scripture - of Ruth to her mother-in-law [Chalmers].