Matthew Poole Commentary - Ephesians 5:26 - 5:26

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Ephesians 5:26 - 5:26


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That he might sanctify; purify from its filth, and consecrate unto God: implying the whole translation of it out of a state of sin and misery into a state of grace and life, consisting in the remission of sin, and renovation of nature.



And cleanse it; or, cleansing it, importing the means whereby he works the former effect.



With the washing of water, viz. in baptism, in which the external washing represents seals, and exhibits the internal cleansing from both the guilt and defilement of sin by the blood of Christ, Heb_9:14 Rev_1:5.



By the word; the word of the gospel, especially the promise of free justification and sanctification by Christ, which received by faith is a means of this sanctification, and without which the external washing is ineffectual; the sign, without the word whereof it is a seal, being no sacrament.