Patristic A.D. 253
“(tom. xiii. c. 17) Ye, literally refers to the Samaritans, but mystically, to all who understand the Scriptures in an heretical sense. We again literally means the Jews, but mystically, I the Word, and all who conformed to My Image, obtain salvation from the Jewish Scriptures.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:19-24
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗