Ruth 1:12
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am vtoo old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, 3if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
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1 Timothy 5:9 Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
Genesis 17:17 Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
Genesis 18:11 Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
Genesis 18:12 Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
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Or, if I were with an husband.
Go your way.
Why doth she dissuade them from this journey, and not rather persuade them to go with her, and to embrace the Jewish religion?
1. Possibly she thought such dissuasion might be the best way to persuade them, as it oft happens; especially in that sex.
2. She would not have them rashly and inconsiderately to embrace the Jewish religion, in hopes of some advantage from it, which she justly thought they would be disappointed of; and withal, exposed to many straits and troubles, and on that occasion revolt from the true religion, which would be far worse than never to have embraced it. And therefore she doth justly, and wisely, and piously in representing to them the truth of the business, and the outward inconveniences which would accompany the change of their place and religion; as also our blessed Lord Christ did, Mat 8:20.