7. Purge me with hyssop. Sprinkle the atoning blood
upon me with the appointed means. Give me the reality which legal ceremonies
symbolize. Nothing but blood can take away my bloodstains; nothing but the
strongest purification can avail to cleanse me. The passage may be read as the
voice of faith as well as a prayer: “Thou wilt
purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean.” There is such power in the divine propitiation that my sin will vanish
quite away. I shall be admitted again into the assembly of thy people, while in
thy sight also, through Jesus my Lord, I shall be accepted. Wash me. Let
it not merely be in type that I am clean, but by a real spiritual purification
which removes the pollution of my nature. And I shall be whiter than snow.
Snow soon gathers smoke and dust, it melts and disappears; thou canst give me
an enduring purity.
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