A Well-known type of Christ. Take, for example, Jno. iv 6. Why is it mentioned, " Now Jacob's well was there "?Surely to arrest our attention in some special way, and Gen. 49:22 discovers the secret. Joseph, we read, is a fruitful bough by a well, whose branches run over the wall.

In this wearied Man, therefore, who in that noontide heat sat by the well of Sychar, we see the true Joseph; and even while we gaze upon Him we behold His branches running over the wall of Judaism, and reaching, with their goodly fruit, this poor woman of Samaria. And if not actually, yet morally (for this characterizes this gospel), the archers had sorely grieved Him, and shot at Him, and hated Him; but His bow abode in strength, etc., as is shown by the deliverance He wrought that day for this poor captive of Satan.

We cannot help recalling that name given by Pharaoh to father Jacob's best beloved son-" Zaphnath-Paaneah " (Gen. 41:45). None can say positively whether it is a Hebrew or an Egyptian name, but strangely enough (and probably there was a divine overruling in the choice of the name, however little conscious Pharaoh might be), in the one tongue it signifies " The Revealer of Secrets," in the other it means "The Saviour of the World."

To the woman, He was indeed " the Revealer; " it was as though He had told her all things that she had done. To the Samaritans, He was "the Saviour of the world;" from among the Jews indeed, as He had said, but, like that " fruitful vine by a wall," of which Jacob spoke, "whose branches run over the wall," He had brought life and blessing and joy for them, for it was not possible that His love could be restrained by any Jewish limitations.

(Selected.) E.F.B.