Matthew Poole and continuators on Ruth 1:12

12 Turn again my daughters, go your way p, for I am too old to have an husband: if I should say, I have hope, if I should have a husband also to night, and should also bear sons:

n Qu. Why doth she disswade them from this journey, and not rather perswade them to go with her, and to embrace the Jewish Religion? Answ. 1. Possibly she thought such disswasion might be the best way to perswade them, as it oft happens; especially in that Sex. 2. She would not have them rashly and inconsiderately to embrace the Jewish Religion, in hopes of some advantage from it, which she justly thought they would be disappointed of; and withal, exposed to many straits and troubles, and on that occasion, revolt from the True Religon, which would be far worse than never to have embraced it. And therefore she doth justly, and wisely, and piously, in representing to them the truth of the business, and the outward inconveniences which would accompany the Change of their Place, and Religion; as also our Blessed Lord Christ did, Mat. 8. 20.

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