467. And his face was like the sun. That this symbolizes the Lord's Divine love and at the same time Divine wisdom is apparent from the explanation in no. 53 above, where similar things are said of the Son of Man.

“Washing” in the Bible represents purification - unsurprisingly! Washing dirt from the skin symbolizes using true ideas from the Lord to remove evil desires and false ideas from our minds. This is the reason that washing was such an integral part of ritual; cleaning the body to perform physical acts of worship - something with no actual spiritual value - is symbolic of repenting our evils and falsities as part of worshiping the Lord.