This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... Ka! Iswkev 4 Gen. xlix. 25. 8 Josue xxiv. 32. Deut. xxvii. 12, 13. was become the capital of Judea, we still find Roboam inaugurating his reign at Sichem.1 But what was there now remaining of these olden splendors? The hills and valleys of Ephraim had forfeited their ancient renown by taking the name of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ... Ka! Iswkev 4 Gen. xlix. 25. 8 Josue xxiv. 32. Deut. xxvii. 12, 13. was become the capital of Judea, we still find Roboam inaugurating his reign at Sichem.1 But what was there now remaining of these olden splendors? The hills and valleys of Ephraim had forfeited their ancient renown by taking the name of Samaria, --a new town of schismatic tribes. The Field of Jacob was now au unhallowed region, through which travellers passed in haste lest they should come in contact in any way with its inhabitants.2 How deeply must not Jesus have grieved over such sad changes of faith as these! Thus, in weariness of body and of soul, He sank down upon the low curb of the well; a divine despair which Saint John pictures in one word, which it is impossible for us to translate: "He was seated after this manner3 by the well." The Church standing above the graves which she has blessed, loves to recall that mysterious lassitude: --Quaerens me sedisti lassus. Redimisti crucera passus: Tantus labor non sit cassus! And very shortly there came up from the little city of Sichar4 the woman whom Jesus had come to seek at the cost of so great a weariness. She was a Samaritan, of evil life. With her slender jar poised upon her shoulder, she passed by all the springs nearer the town, and wandered up to Jacob's Well, --drawn thither by the freshness of its limpid supply, and by something perhaps of traditional respect for the Patriarch. In fact, women of the East do not often go out to draw water in the middle of the day; fearing to encounter some insult, they are never seen around the fountains, except in little companies, and at sunset. But this one had long since lost all timidity and reserve, and she approached the well without concerning herself about the presence...
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