“Jacob’s well is Scripture. The water is the spiritual knowledge found in Scripture. The depth of the well is the meaning, only to be attained with great difficulty, of the obscure sayings in Scripture. The bucket is learning gained from the written text of the word of God which…can only grasp a very small amount of knowledge and leaves behind all that it cannot lay hold of…”
(St. Maximus the Confessor on the ‘Woman at the Well’ In John 4)

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