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Joh 4:16. Λέγει, He saith) Now He makes an avenue for giving to the woman, who begs for water, a better kind of it, than that which she had begged for.-ἄνδρα, husband) The woman seems to have supposed, that the reason why she is desired to call her husband is, in order that he may help her in taking up and carrying home the water, Joh 4:15, promised [by Jesus], Joh 4:14. But Jesus by this address throws open the inmost conscience of the woman, and causes repentance, and elicits confession, Joh 4:29.[83] Nor does He say that “Go, call thy husband,” altogether abruptly; but those words, and that I come not hither, Joh 4:15, and the words here, Joh 4:16, Come hither, correspond to one another. In that place, which the woman thinks to avoid hereafter, there is given to her the living water.
[83] “Come see a man which told me all things that over I did.” A confession of her guilt, and a profession of her belief in Christ-E. and T.