Ruth 4:7 (NIV): What the Church Fathers Said

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Ruth 4:7

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Ambrose of Milan

For, by the law, when a man died, the marriage bond with his wife was passed on to his brother or other male next of kin, in order that the seed of the brother or next of kin might renew the life of the house. And so it was that Ruth, though she was foreign-born, had possessed a husband of the Jewish people who had left a kinsman of near relation. …

Exposition of the Christian Faith 3.69-70 ↗

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