And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Dyed, with which the cedar and hyssop were tied together, as being deemed most proper instruments of purifications, Leviticus xiv. 4, 49. St. Paul informs us, (Hebrews ix. 19,) that Moses thus sprinkled the people and the book: and branches of this description were probably used when the people took this holy water, ver. 18. The ashes intimate, that those who have sinned, may be purified by the sacrament of penance, ver. 9. (Calmet)
