Patristic A.D. 407
“(Hom. xxiii. 2) Or by saying, true, he excludes the Jews together with the Samaritans. For the Jews, though better than the Samaritans, were yet as much inferior to those who were to succeed them, as the type is to the reality. The true worshippers do not confine the worship of God to place, but worship in the spirit; as Paul saith, Whom I serve with my spirit. (Rom. 1:9)”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:19-24
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗