Ruth 3:1Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

After she was returned to her mother in law, Noemi said to her: My daughter, I will seek rest for thee, and will provide that it may be well with thee.
Douay-Rheims

וַתֹּ֥אמֶר לָ֖הּ נָעֳמִ֣י חֲמוֹתָ֑הּ בִּתִּ֞י הֲלֹ֧א אֲבַקֶּשׁ־לָ֛ךְ מָנ֖וֹחַ אֲשֶׁ֥ר יִֽיטַב־לָֽךְ׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Theodoret of Cyrus

5th centuryChurch Father

When Ruth learned from her mother-in-law that a certain man was a close relative and one of their kin, she recalled the deep honor he had shown her. She thought of Boaz and yearned to marry this relative of her late husband, aiming to uphold the legacy of the departed.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Ruth 1:9May he grant you to find rest in the houses of the husbands whom you shall take. And she kissed them. And they lifted up their voice, and began to weep,
1 Tim 5:8But if any man have not care of his own and especially of those of his house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.
1 Tim 5:14I will, therefore, that the younger should marry, bear children, be mistresses of families, give no occasion to the adversary to speak evil.
Ps 128 (127):2
1 Cor 7:36But if any man think that he seemeth dishonoured with regard to his virgin, for that she is above the age, and it must so be: let him do what he will. He sinneth not if she marry.
Deut 4:40Keep his precepts and commandments, which I command thee: that it may be well with thee, and thy children after thee, and thou mayst remain a long time upon the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee.
Jer 22:15Shalt thou reign, because thou comparest thyself to the cedar? did not thy father eat and drink, and do judgment and justice, and it was then well with him?
Jer 22:16He judged the cause of the poor and needy for his own good: was it not therefore because he knew me, saith the Lord?