25, 26. I know Messias cometh . . . when He is come, &c.--If we
take our Lord's immediate disclosure of Himself, in answer to this, as
the proper key to its meaning to His ear, we can hardly doubt that
the woman was already
all but prepared for even this startling announcement, which indeed
she seems (from
Joh 4:29)
to have already begun to suspect by His revealing her to herself. Thus
quickly, under so matchless a Teacher, was she brought up from her
sunken condition to a frame of mind and heart capable of the noblest
revelations.
tell us all things--an expectation founded probably on
De 18:15.
JFB.
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