Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I [am] a stranger?
Ver. 10. Then she fell on her face, &c.] Here shine forth her humility, modesty, and many other graces: a she was, as Gualther saith of the Lady Jane Gray, Pietatis, prudentiae, et modestiae delicium. Yea, caelum quoddam lucidissimis virtutum stellis exornatum, as Bucholcer saith of Joseph. All the people of her city soon knew that she was a very virtuous woman, Rth 3:11 and hence it was that she found so much favour, for true goodnass is very lovely: οττι καλον φιλον εστι .
That thou shouldest take knowledge of me.] Non sum dignus, Domine, quem diligas, saith Augustine. Every saint may say with admiration as he did in John 14:22, "Lord, how is it that thou hast manifested thyself to us, and not unto the world?"
a Rutha tanquam lucidum speculum multarum virtutum nobis proponitur. - Lavater.