Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? no one.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Seed, is not expressed in Hebrew, "unclean. "It may refer to Adam. There is no contagion in the seed to infect the soul, as Tertullian supposed; it in only unclean in the cause, as every person who is born according to the common course of nature, becomes a child of Adam, and partakes in his original sin. (The Scholastics) (Tirinus)
Only art. Essence itself. (Denis the Carthusian)
"The justification of the sinner is a greater miracle than the creation of the world. "(St. Augustine, ibid.)
The birth of Jesus Christ was free from stain; (Luke i. 35.) as was also the conception of his virgin Mother , by the power of God; (Menochius) and his grace, as it is piously believed. (Haydock)
He alone can purify man. (Calmet)
Hebrew, "who can produce what is clean out of the unclean? Not one. "Or Chaldean, "Is there not one? "Septuagint, "For who shall be pure from corruption? Not so much as one: (5) though his life be only of one day upon earth. "The more ancient Fathers have generally quote...
70. He That alone is clean in Himself can cleanse the unclean thing. For man, who lives in a corruptible flesh, has the uncleannesses of temptation engrained in him, seeing that he derived them from his birth. For his very conception, for the sake of fleshly gratification, is uncleanness. Hence the Psalmist saith, Behold, I was shapen in wickedness, and in sin hath my mother conceived me. [Ps. 51, 7] Hence it is therefore that he is very often tempted even against his will. Hence it is that he is subject to impurities in imagination, even though he strive against them by reason, because being conceived in uncleanness, whilst he follows after cleanness, he is striving to get the better of that which he is. But whoever has mastered the motions of secret temptation, and overcome uncleanness of thought, must never ascribe his cleanness to himself, in that none can make clean a thing conceived of unclean seed, save He Who alone is clean in Himself. Let him, then, that has already re...
