7. Dicit eis Iesus. Implete 7. Jesus saith to them: Fill hydrias aqua. Et impleverunt the waterpots with water. And eas usque ad summum. they filled them up to the brim. 7. *To the brim.* So that there was no room left to mix wine or anything else with the water; this shows, too, the quantity of wine that was miraculously supplied. 8. Et dicit eis Iesus: Haurite 8. And Jesus saith to them: nunc, et ferte architriclino. Draw out now, and carry to the Et tulerunt. chief steward of the feast. And they carried it. 8. *Chief steward* (Gr. ἀρχός, chief, or ruler, and τρίκλινος, a dining‐ room, with three couches, and more generally, a dining‐room). The president of the feast, according to some, was _one of the guests_ selected by the host, or by the unanimous consent of the guests; according to others, he was not a guest, but the _chief servant_. In the first view he corresponds with the συμποσιάρχης of the Greeks, and the “magister convivii,” or “arbiter bibendi,” of the Romans; and this we take to be correct, for his familiarity with the bridegroom (v. 10) bespeaks the friend rather than the servant. 9. Ut autem gustavit 9. And when the chief steward architriclinus aquam vinum had tasted the water made factam, et non sciebat unde wine, and knew not whence it esset, ministri autem sciebant was, but the waiters knew who qui hauserant aquam, vocat had drawn the water; the chief sponsum architriclinus. steward calleth the bridegroom. 9. St. John mentions that the president of the feast knew not whence the wine was, nor how it had been produced, in order to show that his testimony in its favour was not the result of previous collusion with Jesus. *Who had drawn the water.* ἠντληκότες is the form for the pluperfect, as well as for the perfect participle, and is rightly rendered “had drawn.” We consider it more likely that the reference is to their drawing the water from the well in order to fill the water‐pots. But if the reference be to drawing the wine from the pots (in v. 8 the same Greek verb is used in reference to that action), then the wine is called water because it had been water so recently, just as the serpent is called a rod in Exod. vii. 12. because it had been a rod immediately before. It is most likely that the conversion took place in the water‐pots, and not on the way from them to the table. 10. Et dicit ei: Omnis homo 10. And saith to him: Every primum bonum vinum ponit: et man at first setteth forth cum inebriati fuerint, tunc good wine, and when men have id, quod deterius est: Tu well drank, then that which is autem servasti bonum vinum worse. But thou hast kept the usque adhuc. good wine until now.