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Joh 4:20. Οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν, our fathers) The woman forthwith brings forward on this occasion a difficulty, which she seems to have felt somewhile before on a religious point, and is eagerly desirous to be instructed by the prophet. The Lord meets such minds [with light and encouragement]. A desultory question is not always to be censured. By our fathers, the woman means not merely nearer ancestors, but even the patriarchs. For even against the Jews themselves the Samaritans relied on antiquity. Again in their turn the Jews were wont to appeal to the Fathers, ch. Joh 6:31, “our Fathers did eat manna in the desert.”-τούτῳ, in this) The woman [in saying this] was pointing to Mount Gerizim.-προσεκύνησαν, adored [worshipped]) The whole of religion can be reduced to adoration.