11. Let then thus much suffice concerning
those outcasts; and now let us return to the divine Scriptures, and let
us drink waters out of our own cisterns [that is, the holy
Fathers The words ἁγίων
πατέρων are not found
in the mss. Mon. 1. Mon. 2. Vind. Roe. Casaub.
nor in Grodecq. Whether meant to refer, as the Benedictine Editor
thinks, to the writers of the Old Testament, or to Christian authors,
they are an evident gloss.], and out of our
own springing wells Prov. v. 15.. Drink we of
living water, springing up into everlasting life John iv. 14, quoted more fully at the end of the
section.; but this spake the Saviour of the
Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive Ib. vii. 38,
39.. For observe what He says, He that
believeth on Me (not simply this, but), as the Scripture hath
said (thus He hath sent thee back to the Old Testament), out of
his belly shall flow rivers of living water, not rivers perceived
by sense, and merely watering the earth with its thorns and trees, but
bringing souls to the light. And in another place He says, But
the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of living water
springing up into
everlasting life,—a new kind of water living and springing
up, springing up unto them who are worthy.