phatic, marking what the disciples expect according to the order of nature. As you look on these green fields between Ebal and Gerizim, ye say, it is yet four months to harvest.
There are four months (retpdunvov éotiv). Properly, tz ts a space of four months. Only here in the New Testament.
Harvest (Jepucuos). See on Luke x. 2.
White (Aevxa/). See on Luke ix. 29.
Already unto harvest. Spiritual harvest. The crowd of Samaritans now pouring out toward the well was to Jesus as a ripe harvest-field, prefiguring the larger harvest of mankind which would be reaped by His disciples. By the best texts the already is joined with the next verse, and the xai, and, at the beginning of that verse is omitted: Already he that reapeth receweth, ete.
Wages (uucSov). See on 2 Pet. ii. 13.
Unto life eternal. This is explained either, which shall not perish but endure unto eternal life, or into life eternal, as into a granary. Compare ver. 14.
Together (ouod). The construction is peculiar: that both the sower may rejorce together and the reaper. Together signi- fies not 7m common, but semultaneously. So quickly does the harvest follow the gospel-seed sown among the Samaritans, that the sower and the reaper rejoice together.
37. Herein (€v Todt). Lit., am thes. In this relation be- tween sower and reaper.
Is that saying true (6 Adyos éotiv 6 addnIuvds). Rev., prop- erly, the saying; the common proverb. True: not only says the truth, but the saying is completely fulfilled according to the ideal in the sowing and reaping of which Jesus speaks. The literal rendering of the Greek, as given above, is, “the saying is
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the true (saying) ;” but several high authorities omit the article before ¢rwe.
38. I sent (éy® améorevAa). The Jis emphatic. The aorist tense points back to the mission of the disciples as involved in their original call.
Other men. Jesus himself and all who had prepared the way for Him, such as John the Baptist.
Labored (xexorraxacr). The perfect tense. Rev., rightly, have labored, their labor showing its effects in the present case. On the word labor, see on Luke v. 5. Compare Josh. xxiv. 13.
39. The saying (rov doyov). Rev., better, the word. It does not refer merely to the woman’s statement, He told me, etc., but to her whole testimony (uaptupovens) concerning Christ.
40. To tarry (weivar). Better, as Rev., to abide.
41. Many more (70AA® mAelous). Lit., more by much; i.e., far more, with reference to the simple zrodAol, many, in ver. 39.
42. Said (€deyov). The imperfect tense: said to the woman as they successively met her.
Saying (Aadav). Another word is designedly substituted for Aoyov, word (vv. 39, 41). In ver. 39 Aoyos, word, is used of the woman, from the Evangelist’s standpoint, as being a testimony to Christ. Here the Samaritans distinguish between the more authoritative and dignified word of Jesus, and the talk of the woman. Rev., speaking. Compare the kindred verb Aadéa, in vv. 26, 27; also viii. 43; Matt. xxvi. 73.
The Christ. The best texts omit.
The Saviour (6 wtp). John uses the word only here and 1 John iv. 14. See on Jesus, Matt. i. 21. It is significant that this conception of Christ should have been first expressed by a Samaritan.