The one who gathered the ashes became equally unclean with the others. For the defilement of the people, previously transferred to the heifer, was …

And it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger ... — So the promise of the remission of sins through …

That was the remedy ordained by the Lord for purifying the defiled; now notice what made this remedy so necessary.

And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
clothes
Whom the Targum …

The heifer was to be entirely burned. This typified the painful sufferings of our Lord Jesus, both in soul and body, as a sacrifice made by fire to…