John 4:17
Douay-Rheims
The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:
Origen
(tom. xiii. c. 8) 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, not the divine law. And our Saviour wishes to marry her to a lawful husband, i. e. Himself; the Word of truth which was to rise from the dead, and never again to die.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:13-18
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.