Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Isaiah 64:6

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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unclean thing--legally unclean, as a leper. True of Israel, everywhere now cut off by unbelief and by God's judgments from the congregation of the saints. righteousness--plural, "uncleanness" extended to every particular act of theirs, even to their prayers and praises. True of the best doings of the unregenerate (Phi 3:6-8; Tit 1:15; Heb 11:6). filthy rags--literally, a "menstruous rag" (Lev 15:33; Lev 20:18; Lam 1:17). fade . . . leaf-- (Psa 90:5-6).

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