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Joh 4:12. Μείζων, greater) as being one, who demandest, or can make good greater things. Comp. ch. Joh 8:53 “Art Thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? Whom makest Thou Thyself?”-πατρὸς ἡμῶν ιἀκώβ, than our Father Jacob) So the Samaritans had persuaded themselves: but falsely, Mat 10:5, “Into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”-Ἰακώβ, Jacob) who was most thoroughly skilled in the things of pastoral life and the procuring of water, and was most successful in the concerns of his household [in managing his property].-ἡμῖν, to us) in the person of Joseph; Joh 4:5, “the parcel of ground, that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.” She speaks thus on that false hypothesis [prevailing among the Samaritans] as to Jacob being their father.-ἔπιε, he drank) The patriarchs used water rather than wine. The woman means this: The patriarch himself was content with this water, nor did he ask for better water.-καὶ τὰ θρέμματα, and his cattle) oxen and sheep. Of course the men-servants and maid-servants, who generally feed the cattle, also drank of it. The well therefore was abundantly supplied and of ancient date.