Matthew Poole and continuators on Ephesians 5:26

26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word .

Purifie 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.

Or cleansing it, importing the means whereby he works the former effect.

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 Bloud of Christ, Heb. 9.14. Rev. 1.5.

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 effectual; the sign, without the word whereof it is a Seal, being no Sacrament.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] 3.5. [illegible: 1 word] 3.5.; [illegible: 1 word] 10.22. [illegible: 1 word] 5.6. [illegible: 1 word] 15.3. [illegible: 1 word] 17.17.