Joshua, Judges, Ruth BOOKS > Humour For those whose throats have

For those whose throats have grown raw from crying for justice and for those whose wounds have gone unhealed

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to be the beauty of the story

but only the truth of God’s Word was meant to fill us up and satisfy us fully

Joshua, Judges, Ruth BOOKS > Humour For those whose throats haveRuth's response to her mother in law Naomi demonstrated both Ruth's loyalty to her family and her trust in God. The Reformers of the sixteenth century found theological significance in such Old Testament narratives. For example, German Lutheran pastor and theologian Johannes Brenz perceived in her confession a foreshadowing of the gospel: Ruth the Moabitess is recorded in the genealogy of Christ, that it might be made known that Christ belongs not