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Thirdly, Job is thought to specify snow-water, because in those Countries the fountain or river-water was not pure, and therefore ⟨p. 367⟩they preserved snow, and took that water to wash and cleanse with. As the custom still is in those places where good water is a rare commodity.

Thirdly, Job is thought to specifie snow-water, because in those Countreys the fountain or river-water was not pure, and therefore ⟨p. 367⟩they preserved snow, and took that water to wash and cleanse with. As the custom still is in those places where good water is a rare commodity.

Or lastly, He may say, If I wash in snow-water, because he would express the cleanest washing, such as makes the body look like snow, white and pure. White as snow is a proverbial (Isa. 1.18.) for the most resplendent whiteness.¹ And we find in Scripture, a thing is said to be washed with that, the likeness of which after washing it represents: Thus the Church glories in Christ, That his eyes were as the eyes of a Dove by the rivers of water washed with milk (Cant. 5.12.) that is, his eyes were white as milk, after washing. So here, Though I wash my self with snow-water, that is, though I wash my self, till I become as white and as pure as snow, &c. We read a like phrase (Psal. 51.9.) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean, in allusion to the Levitical law, which appointed the Priest to sprinkle both things and persons with a bunch of hyssop (Levit. 14