John 4:10
Douay-Rheims
Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Augustine of Hippo
(1. lxxxiii. Quæst. qu. 64) He lets her know that it was not the water, which she meant, that Ho asked for; but that knowing her faith, He wished to satisfy her thirst, by giving her the Holy Spirit. For so must we interpret the living water, which is the gift of God; as He saith, If thou knewest the gift of God.
Source details
A.D. 430 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:7-12
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.