For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh:
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
Next [comes] that which is calculated to persuade.
For (he says) if the blood of bulls is able to purify the flesh, much rather shall the Blood of Christ wipe away the defilement of the soul. For that you may not suppose when you hear [the word] sanctifies, that it is some great thing, he marks out and shows the difference between each of these purifyings, and how the one of them is high and the other low. And says it is [so] with good reason, since that is the blood of bulls, and this the Blood of Christ.
