Treasury of Scripture
is not Boaz
Ruth 2:20-23 And Naomi said to her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead...
Deuteronomy 25:5,6 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without to a stranger...
Hebrews 2:11-14 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers...
with whose
Ruth 2:8,23 Then said Boaz to Ruth, Hear you not, my daughter? Go not to glean in another field, neither go from hence...
he winnoweth It is probable that the winnowing of grain was effected by taking up a portion of the corn in sieve, and letting it down slowly in the wind; thus the grain would, by its own weight, fall in one place, while the chaff, etc., would be carried a distance by the wind. It is said here that this was done at night; probably what was threshed out in the day was winnowed in the evening, when the sea breeze set in, which was common in Palestine.
