“Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”
Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water — the triple exhortation (draw near, assurance, cleansing) calls believers to actualize the access opened by Christ. True heart (kardia alēthine) indicates sincerity; full assurance (plērophoria) marks unwavering trust. Sprinkled clean (rhantizo) echoes the Levitical cleansing but refers to conscience; washed (louō) alludes to baptismal initiation.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 10:22
“ Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us.” Having shown the difference of the High Priest, and of the sacrifices, and of the tabernacle, and of the Covenant, and of the promise, and that the difference is great, since those are temporal, but these eternal, those “near to vanishing away,” these permanent, those powerless, these perfect, those figures, these reality, for (he…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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