John 4:12
Douay-Rheims
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Origen
(t. xiii. 6) In the mystical sense, Jacob’s well is the Scriptures. The learned then drink like Jacob and his sons; the simple and uneducated, like Jacob’s cattle.
Source details
A.D. 253 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:7-12
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.