So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.
Ver. 13. So Boaz took Ruth.] Solemnly, in the face of that assembly, where, it appeareth by the former verse, she was personally present.
And when he went in unto her.] A modest expression of the marriage act. a Note this against those broad spoken barbarologi qui dum spurcetias Veneris eliminant, non aliud quam podicem ex ore faciunt.
The Lord gave her conception.] By Boaz an old man: whereas by her first husband, a young man, she had no child. This was, therefore, a singular act of God's blessing.
And she bare a son.] Which was greater joy than to have born a daughter; not only because he was columen familiae, the upholder of the name and family, but especially because they looked for the Messiah of the line of Judah. And this was, indeed, the end wherefore this Book of Ruth was written, to continue and declare the genealogy of Christ, and what patriarchs lived from Judah (to whom Shiloh was promised) to David, to whom that promise was renewed. But how blank were the foolish Jews when they saw the long hoped for issue of their late Jewish virgin turned to a daughter!
a Lingua Hebraica ideo vocatur sancta, quod nulla in ea inveniantur propria nomina, quae significent pudenda utriusque sexus, coitum, excrementa, &c. Sed res turpes aliqua pudica periphrasi circumloquatur. - Munster in Deut. xxiii.