Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Ruth 1

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 6, page 53, footnote 1 (Image)

Jerome: Letters and Select Works

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CCEL Footnote 851 (In-Text, Margin)

... cannot blame you for weeping: but when I think of the Christian and the recluse, the mother disappears from my view. Your wound is still fresh, and any touch of mine, however gentle, is more likely to inflame than to heal it. Yet why do you not try to overcome by reason a grief which time must inevitably assuage? Naomi, fleeing because of famine to the land of Moab, there lost her husband and her sons. Yet when she was thus deprived of her natural protectors, Ruth, a stranger, never left her side.[Ruth 1] And see what a great thing it is to comfort a lonely woman! Ruth, for her reward, is made an ancestress of Christ. Consider the great trials which Job endured, and you will see that you are over-delicate. Amid the ruins of his house, the pains of ...