Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
Ver. 25. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you.] He alludeth to the legal purifications, especially that made by the ashes of a red cow mixed with running water, wherewith the people were sprinkled, and so cleansed from legal defilement. Num 19:17-19 Semblably the saints, sprinkled with Christ's blood from an evil conscience by the hyssop bunch of faith, and so washed with clean water Heb 10:22 in baptism, the saving virtue whereof is permanent, 1Pe 3:21 are justified and sanctified. 1Co 6:11 This blessed sprinkling David prayeth for. Psa 51:2 The Baptist also, and others, sprinkled those whom they baptized, both to answer the types of the law and this prediction of the prophet, understood by Jerome a of baptism, which is a visible sign and seal of our being washed from the filth of sin by the merit and Spirit of Jesus Christ. Tit 3:5
a Epist. 83.