The Samaritan woman proclaims the Savior; first when she says: "Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep," when she also asks from where He has the living water, and if He might be greater than the one considered her father, Jacob; but now when she also asks for the water that becomes a spring in the one drinking, of water welling up to eternal life. 13.7.41 And if it is true that "You would have asked him and he would have given you living water," it is clear that when she said: "Give me this water" she received the living water, so that she might no longer be at a loss while thirsting nor go to the spring of Jacob to draw water, but without the water of Jacob be able to contemplate the truth in an angelic way and beyond human capacity. For not even the angels need the spring of Jacob, that they might drink, but each has in himself a spring of water welling up to eternal life, which has been brought into being and revealed by the Word Himself and by Wisdom herself. 13.7.42 However, it is not possible for one to receive the water given by the Word, which is other than the water from the spring of Jacob, without having been most diligently occupied, out of thirst, with going and drawing from there; so that in this respect, many are greatly lacking, not having been sufficiently trained in drawing from the spring of Jacob. 13.8.n He says to her: Go, call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. 13.8.43 We also said in the preceding sections that the ruler of the soul, the law to which each has subjected himself, this is the husband. But now we shall also adduce testimony for this from the apostle's epistle to the Romans, where he says: "Or are you ignorant, brothers—for I speak to those who know law—that the law has dominion over a man for as long as he lives?" Who then lives? As we take the law in a general sense, it is the law. 13.8.44 Then he immediately says: "For the married woman is bound by law to her living husband," as if he were saying "to a living husband, which husband is law." 13.8.45 Then again he says: "But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of the husband"; as if a woman is released when the law has died and no longer performs the duties of a wife towards a husband. 13.8.46 Then he says: "So then, while her husband is living she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress if she belongs to another man." 13.8.47 But the law according to the letter has died, and the soul is not an adulteress when she belongs to another man, to the law according to the spirit; and when the husband has died to the wife, it might somehow be said that the wife has also died to the husband, so that we thus understand, "Therefore, my brothers, you also were made to die to the law through the body of Christ, so that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we might bear fruit for God." 13.8.48 If, then, the husband is law, and the Samaritan woman has some husband, having subjected herself—according to the misinterpretation of sound doctrines—to some law, by which each of the heterodox wishes to live, the divine Word here wishes the heterodox soul, as she presents the law that rules her, to be refuted, so that, despising him as not a lawful husband, she might seek another husband, so that she might belong to another, to the Word who will be raised from the dead, who is not overthrown nor will die, but remains eternal and reigns, subjecting all enemies; "For Christ, having been raised from the dead, no longer dies; death no longer has dominion over him. For the death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God, being at his right hand, until all his enemies are put as a footstool for him." 13.8.49 And where was the supposed husband of the Samaritan woman to be refuted as not being a husband, except at the spring of Jacob by Jesus, unless the woman on her own had denied the husband? For this reason Jesus says to her: "Go, call your husband and come here." 13.8.50 But since she already had something of the water welling up to eternal life, because she had said: "Give me this water," and because he who had previously promised that "You would have asked him and he would have given you living water" does not lie, the woman answered, having condemned herself for her fellowship with such a husband, and said:

ἀναγορεύει τὸν σωτῆρα ἡ Σαμαρεῖτις· πρότερον μὲν ὅτε φησί· «Κύριε, οὔτε ἄντλημα ἔχεις καὶ τὸ φρέαρ ἐστὶν βαθύ», ὅτε καὶ ἐπιζητεῖ πόθεν ἔχει τὸ ζῶν ὕδωρ, καὶ εἰ μείζων εἴη τοῦ νομιζομένου πατρὸς αὐτῇ Ἰακώβ· νῦν δὲ ὅτε καὶ αἰτεῖ ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ γινομένου πηγῆς ἐν τῷ πίνοντι ὕδατος ἁλλομένου εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον. 13.7.41 Καὶ εἴπερ ἀληθὲς τὸ «Σὺ ἂν ᾔτησας αὐτὸν καὶ ἔδωκεν ἄν σοι ὕδωρ ζῶν», δῆλον ὅτι εἰποῦσα· «∆ός μοι τοῦτο τὸ ὕδωρ» ἔλαβεν τὸ ζῶν ὕδωρ, ἵνα μηκέτι ἀπορῇ διψῶσα μηδὲ διέρχηται ἐπὶ τὴν πηγὴν τοῦ Ἰακὼβ διὰ τὸ ἀντλεῖν, ἀλλὰ χωρὶς τοῦ ὕδατος τοῦ Ἰακὼβ θεωρῆσαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀγγελικῶς καὶ ὑπὲρ ἄνθρωπον δυνηθῇ. Οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ ἄγγελοι δέονται τῆς τοῦ Ἰακὼβ πηγῆς, ἵνα πίωσιν, ἀλλ' ἕκαστος ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχει πηγὴν ὕδατος ἁλλομένου εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον γεγενημένην καὶ ἀποκαλυφθεῖσαν ἀπὸ αὐτοῦ τοῦ λόγου καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς σοφίας. 13.7.42 Οὐ δυνατὸν μέντοι γε τὸ ἕτερον παρὰ τὸ ἐκ τῆς πηγῆς τοῦ Ἰακὼβ ὕδωρ χωρῆσαι τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου διδό μενον μὴ ἐπιμελέστατα ἀσχοληθέντα ἐκ τοῦ διψᾶν περὶ τὸ διέρχεσθαι καὶ ἀντλεῖν ἐντεῦθεν· ὥστε κατὰ τοῦτο πολλὰ ἐνδεῖν τοῖς πολλοῖς μὴ ἐπιπλεῖον ἐγγεγυμνασμένοις τῷ ἀντλεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ἰακὼβ πηγῆς. 13.8.n Λέγει αὐτῇ· Ὕπαγε φώνησόν σου τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ἐλθὲ ἐνθάδε. Ἀπεκρίθη ἡ γυνὴ καὶ εἶπεν· Οὐκ ἔχω ἄνδρα. 13.8.43 Ἐλέγομεν καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνωτέρω τὸν ἄρχοντα τῆς ψυχῆς νόμον, ᾧ ἕκαστος ὑπέταξεν ἑαυτόν, τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν ἄνδρα. Νῦν δὲ καὶ τοῦ ἀποστόλου ἐκ τῆς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ἐπιστολῆς εἰς τοῦτο μαρτύριον παραθησόμεθα λέγοντος· «Ἢ ἀγνοεῖτε, ἀδελφοί- γινώσκουσιν γὰρ νόμον λαλῶ- ὅτι ὁ νόμος κυριεύει τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ἐφ' ὅσον χρόνον ζῇ;» τίς δὴ ζῇ; ἀπὸ κοινοῦ λαμβανόντων ἡμῶν τὸν νόμον, ὁ νόμος. 13.8.44 Εἶτ' εὐθέως φησίν· «Ἡ γὰρ ὕπανδρος γυνὴ τῷ ζῶντι ἀνδρὶ δέδεται νόμῳ», ὡς εἰ ἔλεγεν «ζῶντι ἀνδρί, ὅστις ἀνὴρ νόμος ἐστίν.» 13.8.45 Εἶτα πάλιν φησίν· «Ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ ὁ ἀνήρ, κατήργηται ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου τοῦ ἀνδρός»· οἱονεὶ γυνὴ κατήργηται ἀποθανόντος τοῦ νόμου καὶ οὐκέτι τὰ τῆς γυναικὸς ὡς πρὸς ἄνδρα ἐνεργεῖ. 13.8.46 Εἶτα λέγει· «Ἄρ' οὖν ζῶντος τοῦ ἀνδρὸς μοιχαλὶς χρηματίσει ἐὰν γένηται ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ· ἐὰν δὲ ἀποθάνῃ ὁ ἀνήρ, ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου, τοῦ μὴ εἶναι αὐτὴν μοιχαλίδα γενομένην ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ.» 13.8.47 Ἀπέθανεν δὲ ὁ νόμος κατὰ τὸ γράμμα, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ ψυχὴ μοιχαλὶς γενομένη ἀνδρὶ ἑτέρῳ, τῷ νόμῳ τῷ κατὰ τὸ πνεῦμα· ἀποθανόντος δὲ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς τῇ γυναικὶ ἀποτεθνη κέναι πως ἂν λέγοιτο καὶ ἡ γυνὴ τῷ ἀνδρί, ὥστε οὕτως ἡμᾶς ἐκλαμβάνειν τὸ «Ὥστε, ἀδελφοί μου, καὶ ὑμεῖς ἐθανατώθητε τῷ νόμῳ διὰ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ, εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι ὑμᾶς ἑτέρῳ, τῷ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἐγερθέντι ἵνα καρποφο ρήσωμεν τῷ θεῷ.» 13.8.48 Εἰ τοίνυν νόμος ἐστὶν ὁ ἀνήρ, καὶ ἡ Σαμαρεῖτις ἔχει τινὰ ἄνδρα ὑποτάξασα ἑαυτὴν κατὰ τὴν παρεκδοχὴν τῶν ὑγιαινόντων λόγων νόμῳ τινί, καθ' ὃν βιοῦν ἕκαστος τῶν ἑτεροδόξων θέλει, βούλεται ἐνταῦθα τὴν ἑτερόδοξον ψυχὴν ὁ θεῖος λόγος παρατιθεῖσαν τὸν ἄρχοντα ἑαυτῆς νόμον διελεγχθῆναι, εἰς τὸ καταφρονήσασαν αὐτὴν ὡς οὐ νομίμου ἀνδρὸς ζητῆσαι ἄνδρα ἕτερον, εἰς τὸ γενέσθαι αὐτὴν ἑτέρῳ, τῷ ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστησομένῳ λόγῳ, μὴ ἀνατρεπομένῳ μηδὲ τεθνηξομένῳ, ἀλλ' ἀϊδίῳ μενοῦντι καὶ βασιλεύοντι πάντας τε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑποτάσσοντι· «Χριστὸς γὰρ ἐγερθεὶς ἐκ νεκρῶν οὐκέτι ἀποθνῄσκει, θάνατος αὐτοῦ οὐκέτι κυριεύει· ὃ γὰρ ἀπέθανεν, τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀπέθανεν ἐφάπαξ· ὃ δὲ ζῇ, ζῇ τῷ θεῷ, ἐν δεξιᾷ ὢν αὐτοῦ, ἕως πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ ὑποπόδιον τεθῶσιν αὐτῷ.» 13.8.49 Ποῦ δὲ ἔδει ἐλεγχθῆναι τὸν νομιζόμενον ἄνδρα τῆς Σαμαρείτιδος ὡς οὐκ ἄνδρα ἢ παρὰ τῇ πηγῇ τοῦ Ἰακὼβ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ, εἰ μὴ ἀφ' ἑαυτῆς ἡ γυνὴ ἤρνητο τὸν ἄνδρα; διὰ τοῦτο λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· «Ὕπαγε φώνησόν σου τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ἐλθὲ ἐνθάδε.» 13.8.50 Οἷον δὲ ἔχουσά τι ἤδη τοῦ ἁλλομένου εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον ὕδατος διὰ τὸ εἰρηκέναι· «∆ός μοι τοῦτο τὸ ὕδωρ» καὶ ἀψευδεῖν τὸν προεπαγγειλάμενον ὅτι «Σὺ ἂν ᾔτησας αὐτὸν καὶ ἔδω κέν σοι ὕδωρ ζῶν», ἀπεκρίθη ἡ γυνή, καταγνοῦσα ἑαυτῆς ἐπὶ τῇ κοινωνίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄνδρα, καὶ εἶπεν·