Matthew Poole and continuators on Ruth 2:20

20 And Naomi said unto her daughter in law, Blessed be he of the LORD, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead And Naomi said unto her, The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen .

i. e. Which he formerly shewed to those who are now dead, to wit, my Husband and his Sons whilst they were liing, and now continues to us, their Wives, who are now alive.

Heb. one of our Redeemers, or Avengers, to whom it belongs to Avenge our Persons, and to Redeem our Lands, and to Marry thee, the Widow and Relict of his next Kinsman, as is expressed, Ruth. 3 9. She saith, one of them, not that there were many who were immediately such, but that he was a very near Kinsman, and one to whom that Office belonged, in case of the refusal of one Person, of whom she rightly conjectured that he would refuse, as he did.

Marginal references: 2 Sam. 2. [illegible: 1+ letters].; Or, one [illegible: 1 word] hath right [illegible: 1 word] redeem.