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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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CHAPTER Vm.<br />

JESUS AT THE WELL OF STCHAB.<br />

(St. John iv. 1-42.)<br />

BOOK<br />

m<br />

Tbsrb is nol a district in ^ <strong>the</strong> L<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> Promise'<br />

which presents a scene more fidr or rich than <strong>the</strong><br />

plain <strong>of</strong> Samaria (<strong>the</strong> modem £1 Mttkhna), As we<br />

st<strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> summit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ridge, on <strong>the</strong> way fipom<br />

Shiloh, <strong>the</strong> eye travels over <strong>the</strong> wide sweep,<br />

extending more than seven miles northward, till it<br />

rests on <strong>the</strong> twin heights <strong>of</strong> Gerizim <strong>and</strong> Ebal,<br />

which enclose <strong>the</strong> valley <strong>of</strong> Shechem. Following<br />

<strong>the</strong> straight olive-shaded road from <strong>the</strong> south, to<br />

where a spur <strong>of</strong> Gterizim, jutting south-east, forms<br />

<strong>the</strong> Vale <strong>of</strong> Shechem, we st<strong>and</strong> by that * Well <strong>of</strong><br />

Jacob' to which so many sacred memories attach.<br />

Here, in * <strong>the</strong> parcel <strong>of</strong> ground' afterwards given to

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