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

Joseph,* which Jacob had bought from the people
of the land, the patriarch had, at great labour and
cost, sunk a well through the limestone rock. At
present it is partially filled with rubbish and
stones, but originally it must have gone down about
150 feet.^ As the whole district abounds in
springs, the object of the patriarch must have been
to avoid occasion of strife with the Amorite
herdsmen around. That well marks the boundary of
the Great Plain, or rather its extensions bear other
names. To the left (westwards), between Gerizira
(on the south) and Ebal (on the north), winds the
valley of olive-clad Shechem, the modem Nablus,
though that town is not in view from the Well of
Sychar. Still higher up the same valley, the mud
hovels of
* The reference here is to Gen. xlviii, 22.
Wiintche, indeed, objects that this application of
the passage is inaccurate, and contrary to universal
Rabbinic tradition. But in this, as in other
instances, it is not the Gk^pel, but rather Dr.
Wiintchc, who is inaccurate. If the reader will