That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
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Cyprian of Carthage
AD 258
Moreover, too, the Apostle Paul, more openly and clearly still manifesting this same thing, writes to the Ephesians, and says, "Christ loved the Church, and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water."
