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For though you wash you with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.
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Sin's Indelible Stain
Commentators explain that "lye" (nitre) and "soap" (borith) were the most powerful cleaning agents known in ancient times. God's point is that sin is not merely surface dirt but a deep, permanent stain. As John Calvin notes, the iniquity is "imprinted" or "stamped" internally. It cannot be scrubbed away by any human effort, no matter how vigorous.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Nitre – Or, natron, a mineral alkali, found in the Nile valley, where it effloresces upon the rocks and surfaces of the dykes, and in ancien…
19th Century
Anglican
Nitre. —The mineral alkali found in the natron lakes of Egypt that took their name from it. The Hebrew word nether is the…
Baptist
Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, tha…
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16th Century
Protestant
We have already seen, and the Prophet will often repeat the same thing—that the people had become so rebellious that they would not willingly yield…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For though you wash yourself with nitre The word (rtn) , "nitre", is only used in this p…
Despite all their advantages, Israel had become like the wild vine that bears poisonous fruit. People are often as much under the power of their un…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he removes their excuses.
They might bring up the neglect of the farmer. Against this, he says, I have planted…
