THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HOLINESS AND SANCTIFICATION (Santamaria)

Holiness and sanctification in the New Testament are not two unrelated ideas that happen to share religious perfume. They are members of the same Greek word-family, built on one bright root: ἁγ-. If you understand that family—how its nouns, verbs, and adjectives behave—you’ll stop treating “holiness” as a vague mood and “sanctification” as a mystical self-improvement program. You’ll start hearing the New Testament’s own emphasis: God marks off what is His, and what is His must not be treated as common.

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Whether those of our brethren, who in supporting their different systems, speak so much of the holiness of heaven, as though it afforded an unanswerable argument against the possibility of angels having sinned, do actually believe that there is a certain region, a mere locality, within the bounds of God’s Creation, which is so essentially holy that sin cannot enter its bounds;