John 4:14

“Finally it presents "the river of the water of life . . . flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb," one of most beautiful symbols of the Holy Spirit.” — Catechism footnote: Rev 22:1; cf. 21:6; Jn 4:10-14.

“It is in us the source of the work of sanctification:” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 4:14; 7:38-39.

“The Holy Spirit is the living water "welling up to eternal life"” — Catechism footnote: Jn 4:14

“Thus the Spirit is also personally the living water welling up from Christ crucified as its source and welling up in us to eternal life.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 4:10-14; 738; Ex 17:1-6; Isa 55:1; Zech 14:8; 1 Cor 10:4; Rev 21:6; 22:17.

“He also alludes to the Spirit in speaking to Nicodemus, to the Samaritan woman,” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Jn 4:10, 14, 23-24.

“…on Him hath eternal life, and concerning the Holy Spirit, that to Him that hath received His grace it shall be a well of water springing up unto eternal life.” — editor's note: Cf. S. John iv. 14

“So again the Lord says in the Gospels, “If any man thirst, let him come unto Me and drink;” and to the woman of Samaria, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.”” — editor's note: S. John iv. 13, 14.

“…to drink, for the “Rock was Christ” Himself: thus does Jesus now give to His believing people power to drink spiritual waters, which spring up to life eternal.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“Since the Son of God is always one and the same, He gives to those who believe on Him a well of water [springing up] to eternal life, but He causes the unfruitful fig-tree immediately to dry up; and in the days of Noah He justly brought on the deluge for the…” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“Let us draw of the fountain of the garden perennial and purest waters springing into life eternal.” — editor's note: St. John iv. 14.

“Drink we of living water, springing up into everlasting life; but this spake the Saviour of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive.” — editor's note: John iv. 14, quoted more fully at the end of the section.

“…hurried all the more assiduously to the church, and hung upon the words of Ambrose, praying for the fountain of water that springeth up into everlasting life.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…have given thee living water, of which whoso drinketh shall never thirst, but it shall be made in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”” — editor's note: John iv. 10, 14.

“And the fountains of water springing up into everlasting life,” which were made in the preachers, were seen.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…the desert, by fulfilling with the Holy Spirit His preachers, in order that there might be created in them a well of water springing up unto life everlasting.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“For from thence were chosen the Apostles; and they first heard, “He that shall have drunk of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst, but there shall be made in him a well of water springing unto life everlasting.”” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…all unbelievers into the sweetness of the faith by their watering.…In some men the Word of God becometh a well of water springing up unto life eternal; but others hearing the Word, and not so keeping it as that they live well, yet not keeping silence with tongue, they become torrents.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…“If any is athirst, let him come to Me:” and, “he that shall have drunk of the water which I shall give, rivers of living water shall flow out of his bosom.”” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“For He melted Himself, and what may be called His hardness to water those who believe on Him, that He might in them become “a fountain of water gushing forth unto everlasting life;” because formerly, when He was not known, He seemed hard.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“Saul, hard as crystal, persecuted Stephen unto death; Paul, now in the living water, calleth the Gentiles to the Fount.…” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain of water springing up unto eternal life.”” — editor's note: John iv. 7–14

“They will therefore be filled with that food of which the Lord Himself says, “My meat is to do the will of my Father,” which is righteousness; and with that water, of which whosoever “drinketh,” as he also says, it “shall be in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.”” — editor's note: John iv. 34, 14.

“As also, in another place, the Lord speaks to the Samaritan woman, saying, “Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again; but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall not thirst for ever.”” — editor's note: John iv. 13, 14.

“Therefore, because He was sacrificed, let each of us feed upon Him, and with alacrity and diligence partake of His sustenance; since He is given to all without grudging, and is in every one ‘a well of water flowing to everlasting life.’” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“John iv. 13, 14” — the author cites it

“As in another place He saith, “A well of water springing up unto eternal life” ( c. iv. 14 ), that is to say, “he shall possess much grace”; and elsewhere He calleth it, “eternal life,” but here, “living water.”” — the author cites it

“And as Christ calls the grace of the Spirit, water, (John 4:14; 7:38.) meaning by water the purity resulting from it, and the abundant consolation which is brought to minds which are capable of receiving Him; so…” — the author cites it

“No watercourse pleasant to the view supplies his wants, but from the Lord’s side he drinks the water of life.” — editor's note: Joh. iv. 14; xix. 34.

“Water is the matter of His first miracle and it is from a well that the Samaritan woman is bidden to slake her thirst.” — editor's note: Joh. iv. 13, 14.

“Once she despised the broken cisterns of which the prophet speaks; but now she has found in the Lord a fountain of life.” — editor's note: Joh. iv. 14.

“He bewitches our Patriarch’s sheep that they may not drink “of the well of water springing up into everlasting life,” but may rather bring upon themselves the words of the prophet, “They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken…” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…as when to the Samaritaness—not an adulteress by her now sixth marriage, but a prostitute—He showed (what He did show readily to any one) who He was;—no benefit is hence conferred upon our adversaries, even if it had been to such as were already Christians that He (in these several cases) granted pardon.” — editor's note: John iv. 1–25.

“For in this point also Scripture has provided for us; for the Son of God says: “He that shall drink of the water which I will give him, it shall become in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life.”” — editor's note: S. John iv. 14.

“But there is also that which is more honourable than all—the fact that Christ, the Maker of all, came down as the rain, and was known as a spring, and diffused Himself as a river, and was baptized in the Jordan.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“Nay, more than this was requisite; for after his entrance into the foul mysteries of the womb, he was washed, and drank of the cup of life-giving bubbling water.” — editor's note: John iv. 7–14. For πιεῖν some read ποιεῖν, “a course which he must pursue who,” etc.

“And when he has sworn this oath, he goes on to the Good One, and beholds “whatever things eye hath not seen, and ear hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man;” and he drinks from life-giving water, which is to them, as they suppose, a bath, a fountain of life-giving, bubbling water.” — editor's note: John iv. 14.

“…wandered, of one to guide us; blind, of one to lead us to the light; thirsty, “of the fountain of life, of which whosoever partakes, shall no longer thirst;” dead, we need life; sheep, we need a shepherd; we who are children need a tutor, while universal humanity stands in need of Jesus; so that we may not continue…” — editor's note: John iv. 13, 14.

To the woman’s question, Art Thou greater than our father Jacob? He does not reply, I am greater, lest He should seem to boast; but His answer implies it; Jesus answered and said to her, Whosoever drinketh of this…

Which is true indeed both of material water, and of that of which it is the type. For the water in the well is the pleasure of the world, that abode of darkness. Men draw it with the waterpot of their lusts; pleasure…

The excellence of this water, viz. that he that drinketh of it never thirsts, He explains in what follows, But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. As a…

For the water which I give him is ever multiplying. The saints receive through grace the seed and principle of good; but they themselves make it grow by their own cultivation.

See how the woman is led by degrees to the highest doctrine. First, she thought He was some lax Jew. Then hearing of the living water, she thought it meant material water. Afterwards she understands it as spoken…

Or thus; The woman as yet understands Him of the flesh only. She is delighted to be relieved for ever from thirst, and takes this promise of our Lord’s in a carnal sense. For God had once granted to His servant…

The woman then being urgent in asking for the promised water, Jesus saith unto her, Go call thy husband; to shew that he too ought to have a share in these things. But she was in a hurry to receive the gift, and…

Understand, that the woman had not a lawful husband, but had formed an irregular connexion with some one. He tells her, Thou hast had fire husbands, in order to shew her His miraculous knowledge.

May not Jacob’s well signify mystically the letter of Scripture; the water of Jesus, that which is above the letter, which all are not allowed to penetrate into? That which is written was dictated by men, whereas the…

The five husbands some interpret to be the five books which were given by Moses. And the words, He whom thou now hast is not thy husband, they understand as spoken by our Lord of Himself; as if He said, Thou hast…

Jesus seeing that the woman did not understand, and wishing to enlighten her, says, Call thy husband; i. e. apply thine understanding. For when the life is well ordered, the understanding governs the soul itself,…

And what more proper place than Jacob’s well, for exposing the unlawful husband, i. e. the perverse law? For the Samaritan woman is meant to figure to us a soul, that has subjected itself to a hind of law of its own,…

Cited together in Catechism §1999.

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Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.

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Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.

Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.17.

Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.

Cited together in Augustine of Hippo on John 4:13–18 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Against Eunomius X.2.

Cited together in Catechism §1999.

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Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.

Cited together in Against Heresies Fragments from.52.

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Cited together in The Refutation of All Heresies V.22.

Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.

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Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.17.

Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.2.

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Cited together in Confessions VI.1.

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Cited together in John Chrysostom on Luke 3:15–17 (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in Confessions VI.1.

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Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.17.

John 4:14 takes up the words of Exodus 25:21 (8 words in common).

John 4:14 takes up the words of Deuteronomy 11:14 (8 words in common).

John 4:14 takes up the words of Ezekiel 39:11 (8 words in common).