STRONGS G628:
ἀπολούω:
to wash off or
away; in the
N. T. twice in 1 aorist middle figuratively [cf. Philo de mut. nom. § 6, i., p. 585, Mang. edition]:
ἀπελούσασθε,
1 Corinthians 6:11;
βάπτισαι καὶ ἀπόλουσαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου,
Acts 22:16. For the sinner is unclean, polluted as it were by the filth of his sins. Whoever obtains remission of sins has his sins put, so to speak, out of God's sight — is cleansed from them in the sight of God. Remission is [represented as] obtained by undergoing baptism; hence, those who have gone down into the baptismal bath [
lavacrum, cf.
Titus 3:5;
Ephesians 5:26) are said
ἀπολούσασθαι to have washed themselves, or
τὰς ἁμαρτ.
ἀπολούσασθαι to have washed away their sins, i. e. to have been cleansed from their sins.
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