Holy Holiness Holily
Holy Holiness Holily [1]
translated "holiness" in the Av of Romans 6:19,22; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 12:14 , is always rendered "sanctification" in the Rv. It signifies (a) separation to God, 1 Corinthians 1:30; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; (b) the resultant state, the conduct befitting those so separated, 1 Thessalonians 4:3,4,7 , and the four other places mentioned above. "Sanctification" is thus the state predetermined by God for believers, into which in grace He calls them, and in which they begin their Christian course and so pursue it. Hence they are called "saints" (hagioi). See Santification.
HallowSanctify.
denotes the manifestation of the quality of "holiness" in personal conduct; (a) it is used in Romans 1:4 , of the absolute "holiness" of Christ in the days of His flesh, which distinguished Him from all merely human beings; this (which is indicated in the phrase "the spirit of holiness") and (in vindication of it) His resurrection from the dead, marked Him out as (He was "declared to be") the Son of God; (b) believers are to be "perfecting holiness in the fear of God," 2 Corinthians 7:1 , i.e., bringing "holiness" to its predestined end, whereby (c) they may be found "unblameable in holiness" in the Parousia of Christ, 1 Thessalonians 3:13 .
1 John 4:16,17
"sanctity," the abstract quality of "holiness," is used (a) of God, Hebrews 12:10; (b) of the manifestation of it in the conduct of the Apostle Paul and his fellow-laborers, 2 Corinthians 1:12 (in the best mss., for haplotes).
is to be distinguished from No. 3, as denoting that quality of "holiness" which is manifested in those who have regard equally to grace and truth; it involves a right relation to God; it is used in Luke 1:75; Ephesians 4:24 , and in each place is associated with righteousness.
Acts 3:12Godliness. Titus 2:3Reverent.
akin to A, Nos. 1 and 2, which are from the same root as hagnos (found in hazo, "to venerate"), fundamentally signifies "separated" (among the Greeks, dedicated to the gods), and hence, in Scripture in its moral and spiritual significance, separated from sin and therefore consecrated to God, sacred.
Luke 1:49 John 17:11 1 Peter 1:15,16 Revelation 4:8 6:10 Luke 1:35 Acts 3:14 4:27,30 1 John 2:20 Matthew 1:18 2 Timothy 1:14 Titus 3:5 1 Peter 1:12 2 Peter 1:21 Jude 1:20 2 Timothy 1:9 1 Peter 1:15 2 Peter 3:11 1 Corinthians 3:17 Ephesians 2:21 Ephesians 5:27 1 Peter 2:5 1 Peter 2:9 Hebrews 9:2 Hebrews 9:3 Hebrews 9:24 Hebrews 9:25 Hebrews 9:8,12 Hebrews 10:19 Revelation 11:2 Acts 6:13 Jude 1:20 1 Corinthians 16:20 Mark 8:38 Ephesians 3:5 Revelation 21:2,10 22:19
akin to A, No. 4, signifies "religiously right, holy," as opposed to what is unrighteous or polluted. It is commonly associated with righteousness (see A, No.4). It is used "of God, Revelation 15:4; 16:5; and of the body of the Lord Jesus, Acts 2:27; 13:35 , citations from Psalm 16:10 , Sept.; Hebrews 7:26; and of certain promises made to David, which could be fulfilled only in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, Acts 13:34 . In 1 Timothy 2:8; Titus 1:8 , it is used of the character of Christians ... In the Sept., hosios frequently represents the Hebrew word chasid, which varies in meaning between 'holy' and 'gracious,' or 'merciful;' cp. Psalm 16:10 with 145:17." * [* From Notes on Thessalonians, by Hogg and Vine, p. 64.]
Acts 13:34 Revelation 16:5 2 Timothy 3:15Sacred.
akin to A, No. 4, and B, No. 2, "holily," i.e., pure from evil conduct, and observant of God's will, is used in 1 Thessalonians 2:10 , of the conduct of the Apostle and his fellow-missionaries.
"to hallow, sanctify," in the Passive Voice, "to be made holy, be sanctified," is translated "let him be made holy" in Revelation 22:11 , the aorist or point tense expressing the definiteness and completeness of the Divine act; elsewhere it is rendered by the verb "to sanctify." See Hallow , Sanctify.
