In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Fountain. In the New Testament Christ is made an open fountain by his incarnation, John iv. 13. (St. Gregory, xx. in Ezechiel 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, Ezechiel xlvii. 1. (Calmet)
The washing. Septuagint, "change and sprinkling. "Grabe substitutes chorismon, "separation "and marks the verse with an asterisk. The legal impurities shall be effaced. (Haydock)
