hyssop

• The name hyssop was given to a number of different plants in olden times. —  Article Source
• "Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow At the first suggestion of an evil thought, send up a mental prayer to Him whose ear is always open. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young
• At the first purification the leper who sought to be cleansed offered for himself "two living sparrows cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop," in such wise that a sparrow and the hyssop should be tied to the cedar-wood with a scarlet thread, so that the cedar-wood was like the handle of an aspersory: while the hyssop and sparrow were that part of the aspersory which was dipped into the blood of the other sparrow which was "immolated over living waters." —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
• Thou shalt purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean. —  The Inner Shrine
• And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike it upon the upper post and on the two side posts, and see that none of you go out at the door of his house until the morning. —  The first New Testament printed in English

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