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I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
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A Promise of Sovereign Grace
Commentators, particularly Charles Spurgeon, emphasize that this cleansing is an act of God's sovereign grace. It is not a reward for Israel's righteousness but a gift given for His own name's sake. God declares, "I will cleanse you," highlighting that salvation is His initiative, given even to those with "stony hearts" who are not seeking Him.
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ezekiel the priest considers the purifying rites prescribed by the Law, the symbolic meaning of which is shown in (Hebrews 9:13–14) and…
19th Century
Anglican
Sprinkle clean water.— Compare to Hebrews 9:13; Hebrews 10:22. Ezekiel, the priest, here refers to those vario…
Baptist
But I had pity for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the heathen, where they went. Therefore say to the house of Israe…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you Not baptismal water, as Jerom; an ordinance indeed of the Gospel, and to w…
Water is an emblem of the cleansing of our polluted souls from sin. But no water can do more than take away the filth of the flesh. Water seems in …
