Full Isa 1:18. "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." The textual root of the scarlet-cord-turns-white ritual. The sign is the ritual; the substance is the prophetic promise.
Isaiah 1:18 — Scarlet Shall Be as Snow
The prophetic promise underneath the Yom Kippur ritual.
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Commentary
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John Calvin
Commentaries
1. The vision of Isaiah The Hebrew word chzvn (chazon,) though it is derived from chzh, (chazah,) he saw, and literally is a vision, yet commonly signifies a prophecy. For when the Scripture makes mention of special visions which were exhibited to the prophets in a symbolical manner, when it…
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