Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Ver. 3. Through the word, &c.] Which is the pruning knife, to lop off our luxuriances, rotten boughs, raw grapes, to pare off our gum of pride, moss of formality, Vinitoris cultellus ad sordes purgandas. (Col.) The word hid in the heart keeps from sin, as an amulet, Psalms 119:11, and keeps youth from uncleanness, John 15:9; mixed with faith, it purgeth upon corruption,Acts 15:9, and will not suffer men to rest in sin.