Ruth 2:5
And Booz said to the young man that was set over the reapers: Whose maid is this?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Dixitque Booz juveni, qui messoribus præerat : Cujus est hæc puella ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ εἶπεν Βόος τῷ παιδαρίῳ αὐτοῦ τῷ ἐφεστῶτι ἐπὶ τοὺς θερίζοντας Τίνος ἡ νεᾶνις αὕτη;
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר בֹּ֨עַז֙ לְנַעֲר֔וֹ הַנִּצָּ֖ב עַל הַקּֽוֹצְרִ֑ים לְמִ֖י הַנַּעֲרָ֥ה הַזֹּֽאת
Haydock's commentary
Man. Hebrew náhar, a man in the prime of life. He had the care of all in the field, during the absence of his master; whence Josephus styles him agrocomos, or agronomos. (Menochius)
Homer mentions an officer or king, standing with his sceptre in the midst of the reapers, and silently rejoicing at the rich profusion of the field. (Iliad)
Thus we see the taste of the ancients, while agriculture was honourable.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.