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Ruth 2:12

The New Testament’s use of Ruth

3 places · 2 kinds of echo

The source

May Yahweh repay your work, and a full reward be given you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”

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Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.

Allusion1

A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.

Luke 13:34-35

Coming to take refuge 'under the wings' of the LORD supplies the same shelter-under-wings idiom for those gathered to God. Recurrence of the wings-refuge motif across the canon supports the allusion.

Medium confidence

Echo2

A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.

Matt 23:37-39

"Under whose wings you have come to take refuge" is part of the wing-shelter cluster behind v37.

Medium confidence
2 John 1:8-9 ?

The hope to "receive a full reward" echoes Boaz's blessing that Ruth receive a full reward from the LORD under whose wings she has taken refuge. The image of a complete recompense for faithful conduct supplies the background.

Low confidence
Elsewhere in Ruth 2
Ruth 2:4 2Ruth 2:14 2