Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 2:9

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 2:9 - 2:9

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ruth 2:9 - 2:9

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go unto the vessels, and drink of that which the young men have drawn - Gleaners were sometimes allowed, by kind and charitable masters, to partake of the refreshments provided for the reapers. The vessels alluded to were skin bottles, filled with water - and the bread was soaked in vinegar (Rth 2:14); a kind of poor, weak wine, sometimes mingled with a little olive oil - very cooling, as would be required in harvest-time. This grateful refection is still used in the harvest-field.