followers of the eschatological “man of sin” (2 Thess 2, KJV, NKJV; “man of lawlessness,” NASB).49 The operation of progressive sanctification can be explored under the following heads. Present sanctification is a continuous and unremitting, though gradual, elimination of sin in the believer and a similarly continuous and unremitting conforming of the believer to the image of Christ. In Jesus’ explanation of the feet-washing incident, it is the cleansing of the sin contracted by daily living