presented: the Church makes herself ready, and yet she is clothed by another. So in Rev. 7:14, believers are said to have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb: while, in chap. 1:5, it is written “Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood.” We may view the saint as clothing or washing himself; for he may be regarded as, by faith, appropriating to himself the precious blood of Christ; or, we may consider the work as all accomplished for him by