“And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.”
Again Abraham bows before the people of the land, the Hittites. The repeated bowing is the courtesy of formal negotiation — Abraham is conducting a legal transaction in the public space of the city gate, with all the proprieties observed. Ruth 2:10 records Ruth bowing before Boaz — the same posture of respectful acknowledgment in a formal relationship. The application: the observance of the social and legal forms of a transaction is not worldly compromise but the respect that makes formal agreements binding and honorable.
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