Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: The Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical Catecheses Ascribed to St Cyril of Jerusalem (Greek and English Edition) ... Patristics) (Popular Patristics Series)

by Cyril of Jerusalem

Have you not heard blessed David’s mystagogical explanation of this, saying: “I will wash my hands in innocence and walk around your altar, O Lord” (Ps 26.6)? So, then, the washing of the hands is a symbol of the need to be guiltless of sin.