THEOSISRuth 3:14Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
So she slept at his feet till the night was going off. And she arose before men could know one another, and Booz said: Beware lest any man know that thou camest hither.
וַתִּשְׁכַּ֤ב מרגלתו מַרְגְּלוֹתָיוֹ֙ עַד־הַבֹּ֔קֶר וַתָּ֕קָם בטרום בְּטֶ֛רֶם יַכִּ֥יר אִ֖ישׁ אֶת־רֵעֵ֑הוּ וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ אַל־יִוָּדַ֔ע כִּי־בָ֥אָה הָאִשָּׁ֖ה הַגֹּֽרֶן׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Cor 8:21For we forecast what may be good, not only before God but also before men.
- Rom 14:16Let not then our good be evil spoken of.
- 1 Cor 10:32Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God:
- 1 Pet 2:12Having your conversation good among the Gentiles: that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by the good works which they shall behold in you, glorify God in the day of visitation.
- Rom 12:17To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God but also in the sight of all men.
- Eccl 7:1What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
- 1 Thess 5:22From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.