724 κε. χωρίου 5ὃ ἔδωκεν ᾿Ιακὼβ Ιωσὴφ τῷ υἱῷ αὐτοῦ. XXXiii. 19; A eee ν mrs μὴ xlviii. 22. Ty} τοῦ Ιακώβ. ὁ οὖν Ingots h Is. xl. 31. ει Li i: Mac. vi / éxadéLeto οὕτως ἐπὶ τῇ πηγη. Spa ἦν ὡσεὶ ἕκτη. 41. 2Cor. κ. a , κ χα Yury ἐκ τῆς Σαμαρείας Heb. ii.
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of Augustus. The territory of Samaria in the time of Christ was included in the tetrarchy of Archelaus and was under the procurator Pontius Pilate. Herod Antipas’ domain marched with it north and east.—Ver. 5. ἔρχεται οὖν . . . τῷ vig αὐτοῦ. ‘So He comes {ο a city of Samaria called Sychar.”’ λεγομένην, cf. xis τθ,. κὶς δη οκ... 13. είο, , Inthe Itinerary of Ferusalem (Α.Ρ. 333) Sychar is identified with ‘Askar, west of Salim and near Shechem, the modern Nablus. The strength of the case for ‘Askar, according to Prof. G. A. Smith (Hist. Geog., Ῥ. 371), is this: ‘That in the fourth century two authorities indepen- dently describe a Sychar distinct from Shechem; that in the twelfth century at least three travellers, and in the thirteenth at least one, do the same, the latter also quoting a corrupt but still possible variation of the name; that in the fourteenth the Samaritan Chronicle men- tions another form of the name; and that modern travellers find α third possible variation of it not only applied to a village suiting the site described by _ the authorities in the fourth century,
but important enough to cover all the plain about the village’”’. The difficulty regarding the initial Ayin in the name ‘Askar is also removed by Prof. Smith. See further Conder’s Tent-work, i. 71. Sychar is described as πλησίον . . . αὐτοῦ, near the “parcel of ground” (particella, little part; the Vulgate has ‘“‘praedium,” estate) which Jacob gave to Joseph his son; according to Gen. xlviii. 22, where Jacob says, ‘I have given thee one portion (Shechem) above thy ὑτείπτεῃ 5 ο. Gen. xxxiil., το. Shechem in Hebrew means “the shoul- der,” and some have fancied that the shoulder being the priest’s portion, the word came to denote any allotment. Gesenius, however, is of opinion that the word was transferred to a portion of land, on account of the shape resembling the back across the shoulders.—Ver. 6. ἦν δὲ ἐκεῖ πηγὴ τοῦ ᾿Ιακώβ. Both πηγή and φρέαρ are used in this context ; the former meaning the spring or well of water, the latter the dug and built pit or well. In ver. ΙΙ φρέαρ is necessarily