2. They are sanctified also by the purification from their sin viewed as defilement. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified: (1 Cor. 6:11) here the middle term seems to unite the two others in itself. The Old-Testament illustration of this was the purifying of the flesh, (Heb. 9:13) which was the outward symbol of deliverance not from guilt but from impurity. In fact the word washing is one of the widest terms of the class: it includes all processes for the putting away of
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