Ruth, The Satisfied Stranger - CCS, Two Great Love Stories
Ruth & Boaz – Christ and the Church by Philip Mauro and published by Classics Publications.
The Book of Ruth has a charm of its own which is more easily appreciated than defined. Its leading characters, apart from Boaz, are a pair of childless, poor, humble widows – one of them a daughter of the abhorred race of Moab. The incidents recorded in these brief chapters are quite ordinary and virtually commonplace.
The style of the book is artless in the extreme, devoid of sensationalism and free from all literally artifices.
The events are recited in few and simple words, with no dramatic situations, no attempts to heighten the effects of the events described. Nevertheless the story of Ruth grasp the attention even upon the most indifferent reader, and leaves upon the reader’s mind an impression of refreshing wholesomeness and sweetness which more ambitious literal effort, dealing with more exciting incidents wholly fail to create.
Such is the nature of this book which tells the love story of Ruth and Boaz as well as Christ and His Church.
