Verse 7
7. Wash his clothes, and… flesh “This washing of the garments and the body what is it but the cleansing of our faculties, external and internal.” Augustine.
Unclean until the even The only necessary contact of the priest with the heifer was in the sprinkling of the blood. The heifer, like all sin offerings, may be regarded as unclean, for the reason that the sins of men were imputed to the sin sacrifice, as the sins of the world were putatively laid upon Christ. “It is evident from the whole that there was no natural or necessary connexion between the sprinkling of the ashes of the heifer upon a person and cleansing him from sin. It was simply the divine appointment that gave efficacy to the act.” Bush.
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