Avhich it had been foretold that living Avaters should flow out. Our Lord's application of the term KoiXia to it Avas in keeping Avith the use of [aii in certain passages of the OT, Avhere it denotes the Avhole of man's emotional nature and sympa- thetic afiections (Pr 20-''- ^o, Hab 3i«, cf. Sir IQi^ 51-1 . (,£ also the expression ' his boAvels yearned,' Gn 433*^, 1 K S^**). The Avords /ca^ojs elirev r} ypa(pT], K.r.X., are thus a terse and eloquent paraphrase of the scope of the passages above referred to. It need hardly be said that the clause Kadws etwev ij 'Ypa(pri cannot possibly be connected Avith the pre- ceding 6 TTLffTevwv ei's ifj.€ ( ' there are not ditt'ei'ent Avays of believing,' Principal Campbell, The Four Gospels, in loc.). This saying of our Lord sujjple- ments and extends that of 41*. The Avord of sal- vation which becomes a gushing spring Avhen received into tlie inner personal life of the be- liever, and rises up there unto eternal life, Jesus now announces, is to become a rushing stream, and is to floAv out from the believer in rivers of blessing to others (woTafiovs e/cdXetreJ', ovx eva TroTap.bv, dWa, d<pdTovs, Chrys. in loc.). The limitations to its dittusion that at present exist Avill be removed Avhen Christ shall have entered into His glory. His sending His Holy Spirit upon the company of be- lievers Avill enable them to proclaim His A\ord ^^"ith full poAver, and Avill make their holy lives a means of spiritual replenishment to all mankind. The saying Avas fulhlled after Pentecost, Avhen ' rivers of liA'ing Avater ' floA\ed out from the Lord's Avit- nesses ' unto the uttermo.st part of the earth,' ' be- ginning at Jerusalem ' * (cf. Dykes, Expositor, 1890 (i.) p. 127 ff.). When the Avater from Siloam Avas brought to the Temple, priests and people sang the words, ' Therefore Avith joy shall ye draw Avater out of the Avells of salvation ' (Is 123). JJ^|; jj^ i\^q verses folloAving (vv.'*-*'), it AA-as implied that the water so draAvn Avas not to be Israel's exclusive posses- sion, but that the .salvation Avhich it symbolized Avas to be communicated to other nations (v.^ ' let this be known in all the earth,' RV). With the leading thought of Jn 7^^ may be compared Avhat St. Paul says about Christians first receiving and then giA'ing forth ' the light of the knoAvledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ ' (2 Co 4«).
c. Jn 6^1. — Tavo things — the manna and the bread of the miracle Avhich He had just Avrought — Avere present to our Lord's mind Avhen He preached at Capernaum, and also to the minds of His hearers. They had said, after His feeding the five thousand, ' This is of a truth the Prophet that Cometh into the Avorld ' (a\"). But the earthly and material good Avhich they expected to folloAV not being immediately forthcoming, and the first favour- able impression produced by the miracle having Avorn oft", they began to criticise and find fault. ' After all. His muJtiijlying the loaves is not any- thing so very Avonderful. Can He "rain dcA\n manna upon us to eat, and give us of the corn of heaA^en" (Ps 78^^), that Ave may see and belicA-e Him (A'. 3") ? The manna,' said they, ' supplied the Avants of all the hosts of Israel for forty years, but He has furnished us Avith no more than one meal.' This led Jesus to set forth the ditt'erence betAveen the manna and 'the true bread from heaven' (a\32). Inasmuch as the manna Avas sent doA\Ti from above, and Avas continually reneAved, it Avas a type of the true bread. But that bread it Avas not, being simply a provision Avhich Avas made for a special purpose, and Avhich lasted only until that purpose had been fulfilled (cf. Jos 51^) ; nor
* The Patristic expositors applied the saying mainly to the effusion of the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit (Hare, Mission of the Comforter, Note H, where a passage is quoted from a sermon preached by Luther in 1531, in which he states the right sense with his usual vigour).
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