Leviticus 15

Leviticus 15:5

John Chrysostom: The washing which is common to all persons is that of the baths, which usually cleanses away the filth of the body. There is also the washing of the Jews, which is more solemn than that of the baths but much inferior to the bath of grace. While this [baptismal] bath cleanses bodily filth, it does not merely remove the uncleanness of the body but also that which clings to a weak conscience. — BAPTISMAL INSTRUCTIONS 9.13

John Damascene: For from the beginning “the spirit of God moved over the waters,” and over and again Scripture testifies to the fact that water is purifying. It was with water that God washed away the sin of the world in the time of Noah. It was with water that every one who was unclean was purified in accordance with the law, and even their garments were washed with water. — ORTHODOX FAITH 4.9

Leviticus 15:11

Augustine of Hippo: What do these words mean? And whoever touches the one who suffers the flow of semen, without having washed his hands in water, will wash his clothes and wash his body in water and be impure until evening? Because the phrase: without having washed your hands in water, is placed in an ambiguous way, as if to say that it had touched him later. The meaning is this: Whomever he touches, without washing his hands, the individual he has touched will wash his clothes, etc. — QUESTIONS ON LEVITICUS, Q. 52 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

Leviticus 15:18

Clement of Alexandria: In the past, a man coming from marital intercourse was required to wash. It cannot be too strongly said that the providence of God revealed through the Lord no longer makes this demand. The Lord eliminates washing after intercourse as unnecessary since he has cleansed believers by one single baptism for every such encounter, just as he takes in the many washings prescribed by Moses by one single baptism. — The Stromata Book 3