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John 10:36; (g) the Lord Jesus devoting Himself to the redemption of His people, John
17:19; (h) the setting apart of the believer for God, Acts 20:32; cf. Rom. 15:16; (i) the
effect on the believer of the Death of Christ, Heb. 10:10, said of God, and 2:11; 13:12,
said of the Lord Jesus; (j) the separation of the believer from the world in his behavior—
by the Father through the Word, John 17:17, 19; (k) the believer who turns away from
such things as dishonor God and His gospel, 2 Tim. 2:21; (l) the acknowledgment of the
Lordship of Christ, 1 Pet. 3:15.
“Since every believer is sanctified in Christ Jesus, 1 Cor. 1:2, cf. Heb. 10:10, a
common NT designation of all believers is ‘saints,’
, i.e., ‘sanctified’ or ‘holy
ones.’ Thus sainthood, or sanctification, is not an attainment, it is the state into which
God, in grace, calls sinful men, and in which they begin their course as Christians, Col.
3:12; Heb. 3:1.Ӡ
SANCTUARY
(
?
, 39), the neuter of the adjective
, “holy,” is used of those
structures which are set apart to God, (a) of “the tabernacle” in the wilderness, Heb. 9:1,
RV
, “its sanctuary, a
$
of this world” (
KJV
, “a worldly sanctuary”); in v. 2 the
outer part is called “the Holy place,”
RV
(
KJV
, “the sanctuary”); here the neuter plural
is used, as in v. 3.
Speaking of the absence of the article, Westcott says “The anarthrous form Agia
(literally
B
) in this sense appears to be unique, as also agia agiwa below, if indeed
the reading is correct. Perhaps it is chosen to fix attention on the character of the
sanctuary as in other cases. The plural suggests the idea of the sanctuary with all its parts:
cf. Moulton-Winer, p. 220.” In their margin, Westcott and Hort prefix the article to
in vv. 2 and 3. In v. 3 the inner part is called “the Holy of holies,”
RV
(
KJV
, “the
holiest of all”); in v. 8, “the holy place” (
KJV
, “the holiest of all”), lit., “(the way) of the
holiest”; in v. 24 “a holy place,”
RV
(
KJV
, “the holy places”), neuter plural; so in v. 25,
“the holy place” (
KJV
and
RV
), and in 13:11,
RV
, “the holy place” (
KJV
, “the sanctuary”);
in all these there is no separate word
, “place,” as of the Temple in Matt. 24:15; (b)
of “Heaven itself,” i.e., the immediate presence of God and His throne, Heb. 8:2, “the
sanctuary” (
RV
, marg., “holy things”); the neut. plur. with the article points to the text as
being right, in view of 9:24, 25 and 13:11 (see above), exegetically designated “the true
tabernacle”; neut. plur. in 9:12, “the holy place”; so 10:19,
RV
(
KJV
, “the holiest”; there
are no separate compartments in the antitypical and heavenly sanctuary), into which
believers have “boldness to enter” by faith.¶
2.
(
, 3485) is used of the inner part of the Temple in Jerusalem, in Matt.
23:35,
RV
, “sanctuary.” See
TEMPLE
.
SAND
(
/
, 285), “sand” or “sandy ground,” describes (a) an insecure foundation,
Matt. 7:26; (b) numberlessness, vastness, Rom. 9:27; Heb. 11:12; Rev. 20:8; (c)
symbolically in Rev. 13:1,
RV
, the position taken up by the Dragon (not, as in the
KJV
, by
† From
Notes on Thessalonians,
by Hogg and Vine, pp. 113, 114.