7. was like someone: as [one] whom (5): She seemed like someone who had been saved (6) according to prescribed ritual (Purification in the Old Law). But the word as also implies a condition contrary to fact: 'as if she had been saved.' Like St. Paul (and many other Christians), Milton believed that following the rituals of the Old Law had nothing to do with being saved. The relative pronoun whom (5) is the direct object of the verb did save (6); the grammatical subject of the verb is Purification. The participial phrase, washt from . . . taint (5), modifies whom and is parenthetical.