The Preacher's Commentary on the Book of Ruth - With Critical and Exegetical Notes #247731

Deeply religious, yet domestic. A brief but exquisite story of hearth and home. Abounds with felicitous pictures of Oriental village life. Simplicity of rural manners beautifully depicted, not by a shadowy fiction, but in the homely records of affection and virtue (eadie). Not the warrior or the king, but the farmer and householder, find their prototypes here (lange). The reader finds himself now in the open field, now on the road, and anon among the assembly at the gate (lange). In style dramatic. He makes his rustics talk in rustic fashion (lange). Yet all this subdued, and with the finest moderation. A unique specimen of the art which conceals art. This prose idyl far exceeds those laboured songs and artificial delineations which grace the poetry of Greece and Rome (eadie).