“ Callicles: Yes.
“Socrates: And he is to be thirsting and drinking ?
“ Callicles: Yes, that is what I mean; he is to have all his desires about him, and to be able to live happily in the gratifi- cation of them” (‘“ Gorgias,” 494). Compare Apoc. vii. 16, 17.
Shall be (yevyjceta). Rev., better, shall become, expressing the ever-developing richness and fresh energy of the divine principle of life.
In Him. A supply having its fountain-head in the man’s own being, and not in something outside himself.
A well (7ny7). The Rev. retains well, where spring would have been more correct.
Springing up (dAXopévov). Leaping; thus agreeing with shall become. ‘The imperial philosopher of Rome uttered a great truth, but an imperfect one; saw much, but did not see all; did not see that this spring of water must be fed, and fed evermore, from the ‘ upper springs,’ if it is not presently to fail, when he wrote: ‘ Look within; within is the fountain of good, and ever able to gush forth if you are ever digging’ ” (Plutarch, “On Virtue and Vice”).
Unto everlasting life. Christ in a believer is life. This life ever tends toward its divine source, and issues in eternal life.
Come hither (épyapar év9dde). The best texts read dvép- xopat, the preposition 64 having the force of through the in- tervening plain.
16. Husband (dvépa). See on i. 30.
17. Well (cares). Aptly, truly. Compare viii. 48; Matt. xv. 7; Luke xx. 39.
19. | perceive (Jewpd). See oni.18. Not immediate per- ception, but rather, J percewe as I observe thee longer and more carefully.
A prophet. See on Luke vii. 26. The Greek order is @ prophet art thou ; the emphasis being on prophet.
20. Our fathers. Probably meaning the ancestors of the Samaritans, as far back as the building of the temple on Mount Gerizim in the time of Nehemiah. This temple had been de- stroyed by John Hyrcanus, 129 B.c., but the place remained holy, and to this day the Samaritans yearly celebrate there the feast of the Passover. See the graphic description of Dean Stanley, who was present at the celebration (‘Jewish Church,” vol. i., Appendix IIT.).
This mountain. Gerizim, at the foot of which lies the well. Here, according to the Samaritan tradition, Abraham sacrificed Isaac, and met Melchisedek. By some convulsion of nature, the central range of mountains running north and south, was cleft open to its base at right angles to its own line of ex- tension, and the deep fissure thus made is the vale of Nablus, as it appears to one coming up the plain of El Mikhna from Jerusalem. The valley is at least eighteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, and the mountains on either hand tower to an elevation of about one thousand feet more. Mount Ebal is on the north, Gerizim on the south, and the city between. Near the eastern end the vale is not more than sixty rods wide ; and there, I suppose, the tribes assembled to hear the “bles- sings and cursings” read by the Levites (Deut. xxvii., xxviii.). The panorama seen from the top of Gerizim is about the most extensive and imposing in al] Palestine. The summit is a small level plateau. In the midst of the southern end is a sloping rock, said by the Samaritans to be the site of the altar of their temple, and on approaching which they remove their shoes. At the eastern edge of the plateau, a small cavity in the rock is shown as the place on which Abraham offered up Isaac. Ebal is three thousand and seventy-nine feet above the sea-level,