Assurance for a Virtuous Woman

The first time that Ruth met Boaz she made a striking and significant confession. Boaz had told her not to glean in another field of some other Israelite; that he had charged his young men not to touch her; and that she might drink of the water which his servants had drawn for themselves. Then Ruth not only confessed that she was a stranger unto him but also that she was "not like unto one of thy handmaidens." Doing this she confessed being a Moabitess and a stranger in that sense. In other...