Note 82 — Chapter XXV

Middle Voice, ἀπελούσασθε, on which see Professor Evans in the Speaker’s Commentary iii., p. 282. And it is worth noticing that in both passages the principal verbs are in the tense which in Greek commonly indicates some one particular occasion, “Ye were washed, were sanctified, were justified,” are all in the aorist. So also here: “He saved us,” and “He poured out upon us” are both in the aorist. And in both cases the natural reference is to the particular occasion of baptism in which we “were washed, sanctified, and justified,” because God “saved us by the laver of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit which He poured out upon us richly.”