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Heb 10:23. Καὶ λελουμένοι, and being washed) Single verbs and single participles cohere in Heb 10:22-24,[64] and the particle καὶ, and, divides the members of the sentence. But the order is, verb, participle; participle, verb; verb, participle, by Chiasmus.-τὸ σῶμα, the body) The allusion is to the Levitical washings; and yet he does not say the flesh, but the body, by which the whole substance of the man is denoted by Synecdoche. The body also had been formerly polluted by sin, but it is washed, that it may be fitted, after the example of the holy body of Christ, Heb 10:10, for an oblation: Rom 12:1; 1Co 6:13; 1Co 6:20.-ὕδατι καθαρῷ, with pure water) Eze 36:25; Joh 19:34; 1Co 6:11; Tit 3:5; 1Jn 5:6.-[65] τὴν ὁμολογίαν, confession) Confession was taken up at baptism, and ought to be retained [held fast].
[64] Beng. thus makes καὶ, in Heb 10:23, join προσερχώμεθα and κατέχωμεν, not ἐῤῥαντισμένοι and λελουμένοι.-ED.
[65] Καθαρῷ-τῆς ἐλπίδος, with clean-of hope) In like manner cleansing is joined with hope, 1Jn 3:3.-V. g.