Where in the scriptures does the phrase "self washed persons" occur? Just trying to understand where this phrase comes from.
But it has happened to them according to the true proverb: "A dog returns to his own vomit," and, "a sow, having washed, to her wallowing in the mire."Simply read a few verses further. The sow had washed herself; she was self washed. This is why people appear to be saved when they are not. They were never regenerated by the washing of the Holy Spirit. There was no fundamental change with this self washing that gives them the ability to endure to the end.