Ruth is the person after whom the Book of Ruth is named. She was a Moabite woman who married an Israelite. After the death of all the male members of her family (her husband, her father-in-law, and her brother-in-law), she stays with her mother-in-law, Naomi, and moves to Judah with her, where Ruth wins the love and protection of a wealthy relative, Boaz, through her kindness.
But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit...
“This Book [is] the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is Wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles...
Discerning who Christ Jesus is as Divine Infant, the Divine Child, Child Jesus, the Holy Child, from his nativity to age 12.