Ruth

Who

Key verses

1. Ruth 1:16

   Ruth said, “Don’t urge me to leave you, and to return from following you, for where you go, I will go; and where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people, and your God my God.

2. Ruth 4:17

   The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, “A son is born to Naomi”. They named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

3. Matthew 1:5

   Salmon became the father of Boaz by Rahab. Boaz became the father of Obed by Ruth. Obed became the father of Jesse.

Where the Bible names her

Family

Children

• OObedMatthew 1:5

Discussed by

Comments on the verses that name her (8 of 27).

• Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Passing over the other sons of Jacob, the Evangelist follows the family of Judah, saying, “But Judah begat Phares and Zara of Thamar.”

• Augustine of Hippo on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Neither was Judah himself first-born, nor of these two sons was either his first-born; he had already had three before them. So that he keeps in that line of descent, by which he shall arrive at David, and from him…

• Jerome on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  It should be noted, that none of the holy women are taken into the Saviour’s genealogy, but rather such as Scripture has condemned, that He who came for sinners being born of sinners might so put away the sins of…

• Ambrose of Milan on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  But Luke has avoided the mention of these, that he might set forth the series of the priestly race immaculate. But the plan of St. Matthew did not exclude the righteousness of natural reason; for when he wrote in his…

• John Chrysostom on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Besides this, it shews that all are equally liable to sin; for here is Thamar accusing Judah of incest, and David begat Solomon with a woman with whom he had committed adultery. But if the Law was not fulfilled by…

• Ambrose of Milan on Matthew 1:3–6 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Observe that Matthew does not name both without a meaning; for though the object of his writing only required the mention of Phares, yet in the twins a mystery is signified; namely, the double life of the nations,…

• Pseudo-Chrysostom on Matthew 1:3–6Catena Aurea on Matthew

  By Zarah is denoted the people of the Jews, which first appeared in the light of faith, coming out of the dark womb of the world, and was therefore marked with the scarlet thread of the circumciser, for all supposed…

• Glossa Ordinaria on Matthew 1:3–6 (2)Catena Aurea on Matthew

  Judah begat Phares and Zarah before he went into Egypt, whither they both accompanied their father. In Egypt, “Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; Aram begat Aminadab; Aminadab begat Naasson;” and then Moses…