The Clean

Dicit ei Simon Petrus: Domine, non tantum pedes meos, sed et manus, et caput. Dicit ei Jesus: Qui lotus est, non indiget nisi ut pedes lavet, sed est mundus totus. Et vos mundi estis... Commedans ergo Apostolos, Veritas ait: Vos mundi estis; mundi, inquam, munditia cordis, munditia oris, munditia operis, et munditia conversationis. Vulgariter enim solemus mundare quatuor, scilicet faciem, os, manus et vestes. Per hunc modum lavant justi faciem cordis; Tobiae tertio ait Sara: Tu scis, Domine, quia numquam concupivi virum et mundam servavi animam meam ab omni concupiscentia; de hoc secundae ad Corinthios septimo: Mundemus nos ab omni inquinamento carnis et spiritus, perficientes sanctificationem. Hanc petebat David in Psalmo, cum dicebat: Cor mundum crea in me, Deus; hoc praecipitur Isaiae primo: Lavamini, mundi estote, etc. Item mundum habent sermonem oris, quod habebat Iob, undecimo, qui dicebat: Purus est, Domine, sermo meus, et mundus sum in conspectu tuo. Hanc monet Apostolus ad Ephesios quinto: Fornicatio et immunditia non nominetur in vobis. Item, munda habent manus operis, quod habebat ille, Genesis vigesimo, qui dicebat: In simplicate cordis mei et in munditia manuum mearum feci hoc, et secundi Regum vigesimo secundo: Restituet mihi Dominus secundum iustitiam meam, et secundum munditiam manuum mearum in conspectu oculorum eius. De hac Iob vigesimo secundo: Salvabitur innocens munditia manuum suarum. Item, mundam habent iusti vestem conversationis, ad quam hortabatur Iacob filios suos, dicens Genesis trigsimo quinto: Abiicite deos alienos, qui in medio vestri sunt, et mundamini et mutate vestimenta vestra. Sic ergo habent munditiam vultus, munditiam oris, munditiam manuum et munditiam vestium Sancti, quibus dicitur a Domino: Vos mundi estis. Sanctus Bonaventura, Collationes In Evangelium Ioannem, Caput XIII, Collatio LI Source: Here, p599

Peter said to Him, 'Lord, wash not only my feet, but my hands and my head.' Jesus said to him, 'A man who has bathed does not need to do any more than wash his feet, but he is clean all over. And you are clean...' 1 Therefore commending the Apostles, the Truth says, 'You are clean.' And clean, I say, in cleanliness of heart, of mouth, of works, and of conduct. Commonly we are accustomed to be clean in four ways, that is, regarding the face, the mouth, the hands, and clothes. In this way the righteous wash the face of the heart: In the third chapter of Tobit Sara says:'You know, O Lord, that I have never lusted for a man, and I have kept my soul clean from all concupiscence.' 2 In the seventh chapter of the second letter to the Corinthians: 'Let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of the flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification.' 3 David seeks this in the Psalm when he says: 'Make my heart clean, O Lord.' 4 This is commanded in the first chapter of Isaiah: 'Wash yourselves, be clean...' 5 The same cleanliness they have in the word of the mouth which Job had in the eleventh chapter: 'My word is pure, O Lord, and I am clean in your sight.' 6 The Apostle gives warning about this in the fifth chapter of Ephesians: 'Let not fornication and uncleanliness but named among you.' 7 Likewise they have cleanliness in works, which he had in the twentieth chapter of Genesis, who said: 'In the simplicity of my heart and with clean hands I did this.' 8 And in the twenty second chapter of the second book of Kings:'Let the Lord return to me according to my righteousness and according to the cleanliness of my hands in the sight of His eyes.' 9 Concerning this in the twenty second chapter of Job: 'The innocent shall be saved by the cleanliness of their hands.' 10 Likewise the righteous have cleanliness in the clothing of conduct, to which Jacob exhorts his sons, saying in the thirty fifth chapter of Genesis: 'Cast out foreign gods from among you, and be clean and change your garments.' 11 Thus they have cleanliness of face, of mouth, of hands, of clothing, the saints, to whom it is said by the Lord: 'You are clean.' Saint Bonaventura, Observations On The Gospel Of Saint John, Chapter 13 1 Jn 13.9-10 2 Tob 3.16 3 2 Cor 7.1 4 Ps 50.12 5 Isaiah 1.16 6 Job 11.4 7 Ephes 5.3 8 Genes 20.5 9 2 Kings 22.25 10 Job 22.30 11 Genes 35.2