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Origen — as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:7-12

Patristic A.D. 253

Origen · c. A.D. 184–253

“(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.”

Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:7-12 PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗

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