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For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
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Ashes, Water, Christ, & Spirit
Commentators like Matthew Henry explain that the two elements required for cleansing are deeply symbolic for Christians. The ashes from the sin offering represent the finished, atoning work of Jesus Christ on the cross. The 'running' or 'living' water signifies the power and grace of the Holy Spirit, who applies Christ's righteousness to us.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
One practical effect of attaching defilement to a dead body, and to all that touched it, etc., would be to ensure early burial, and to correct a pr…
19th Century
Anglican
of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin. —Better, of the ashes of the burnt sin-offering; literally,
Baptist
This ordinance was partly sanitary. The Egyptians were accustomed to keep their dead in their houses, preserved as mummies. No Jew could do that, b…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And for an unclean person Defiled by any of the above means:
they shall take of the ashes of the …
Why did the law make a corpse a defiling thing? Because death is the wages of sin, which entered the world through sin, and reigns by its power. Th…
