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The fountain (hē pēgē). Old word for spring (Joh 4:14).
Opening (opēs). Old word for fissure in the earth, in N.T. only here and Heb 11:38 (caves).
Send forth (bruei). Present active indicative of bruō, old verb, to bubble up, to gush forth, here only in N.T. The use of mēti shows that a negative answer is expected in this rhetorical question.
The sweet and the bitter (to gluku kai to pikron). Cognate accusatives with bruei. Separate articles to distinguish sharply the two things. The neuter singular articular adjective is a common way of presenting a quality. Glukus is an old adjective (in N.T. only here and Rev 10:9.), the opposite of pikron (from old root, to cut, to prick), in N.T. only here and Jam 3:14 (sharp, harsh).