Contributed by James Groce on May 2, 2001
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Often, to say a thing is pure is to say that nothing else has been added to it, whether clean or unclean.
In this sense, pure denotes something that is free of foreign elements.
An Unadulterated Heart
Text: Mt. 5:8
The Greek adjective katharos meant "clean" or "pure."
A "catharsis" is a purging or cleansing.
Katharos often meant something that had been purged.
A soiled garment that had been washed.
Corn with the chaff winnowed out.
An army purged of unacceptable
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