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To a people not reformed. In reference to magistrates and statesmen, reformation is a fire that purgeth away the dross: Isa. i. 25, “And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin.” Here is the refiner’s fire; and the Chaldee Paraphrase addeth the fuller’s borith.
This is set forth by a double metaphor: one taken from the refiner’s fire, which purifieth metals from the dross; the other, from the fuller’s soap; others read the fuller’s grass, or the fuller’s herb. Some have thought it so hard to determine, that they have kept into the translation the very Hebrew word borith.
However it is certain that ברר,—borith, cometh from a word which signifieth to make clean, according to that, Mark ix. 3, “His raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.” But to whom will Christ thus reveal himself? And who are they whom he will refine from their dross, and wash from their filthiness?
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