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“In that day there will be a fountain opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
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Verse 1. Fountain. In the New Testament Christ is made an open fountain by his incarnation. John 4:13. Saint Gregory xx. in Ezec. i. 6. ep. 186. Worthington.—His baptism and other sacraments have the most surprising effects, to which the prophet refers more than to those waters which were brought by pipes into the temple to cleanse the victims. Ezekiel 47:1. Calmet.—The washing. Septuagint “change and sprinkling.” Grabe substitutes χωρισμον, “separation,” and marks the verse with an asterisk. The legal impurities shall be effaced. Bible.
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