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Matthew Poole and continuators on Ruth 4:1

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Ruth4:1

THEN went Boaz up to the gate , and sate him down there: and behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake, came by, unto whom he said, Ho, such an one , turn aside, sit down here . And he turned aside, and sate down.

The place where Controversies were decided, and the People Assembled, and where they used to go out, and come in to the Town; where he was most likely to find his Kinsman.

Doubtless Boaz both knew his Name, and called him by it, but it is omitted by the Holy Writer; partly because it was unnecessary to know it; and Principally in way. of contempt, as is usual, and as a just punishment upon him, that he who would not preserve his Brothers Name, might lose his own, and lie buried in the Grave of perpetual Oblivion.

I have some Business of Importance with you.

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