Grace And Water And Life

Flumina de ventre eius fluent aquae vivae. Nota, quod gratia Dei dicitur aqua viva, quia vitam tribuit, vitam custodit, ad vitam perducit. Vitam tribuit; Ezechielis quadragesimo septimo: Omnia, ad quae pervenerit torrens, vivent. Vitam custodit; Numerorum vigesimo: Aperi vobis thesaurum tuum, fontem aquae vivae, ut satiati, cesset murmuratio eorum. Ad vitam perducit; loannis quarto: Fiet in eo fons aquae salientis in vitam aeternam. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput VII, Collatio XXXII Source: Here, p573

Rivers of living water shall flow out of his breast. 1 Note that it is the grace of God that is called living water, because it gives life, and it protects life, and it leads to life. It gives life in the forty seventh chapter of Ezekiel: 'Everything shall live where the river shall go.' 2 It protects life in the twentieth chapter of Numbers: 'Open your treasure, the fount of living waters, that being satisfied, their murmuring is silenced.' 3 It leads to life in the fourth chapter of John: 'It will become in him a fount of water leaping up to eternal life.' 4 Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 7 1 Jn 7.38 2 Ezek 47.9 3 Numb 20.6 4 Jn 4.14