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Psalms 51:7

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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Psalms 51:7. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Yet what can be whiter than snow? Snow is not like a whited wall that is but white on the surface: it is white all through. And yet when God washes the believer, he makes him whiter than snow, for the snow soon becomes tainted, soon loses its purity; but we never shall if God shall wash us. There was no provision made for the cleansing of an adulterer under the law. David, therefore, had to look beyond all the sacrifices of the law to the cleansing power of the great coming sacrifice, and he so believed in it that with a brave faith - (I know no more brave expression in all Scripture than this) - he says, "Wash me, filthy as I am, and I shall be whiter than snow."

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