There
is a contrast between the law with its priesthood and many sacrifices which
failed to bring perfection (vii. 11, 19, x. 1) and the one offering of Christ
which has done all that is required. Through faith this perfect work becomes a
living and effective reality in those that are sanctified or ‘are
being sanctified’, i.e. in those whose moral and spiritual experience is still
progressing to its full realization. Them that are sanctified,
however, may be iterative and mean ‘those who from age to age receive
sanctification’. (Thomas Hewitt, The Epistle to the Hebrews: An Introduction
and Commentary [Tyndale New Testament Commentaries; London: The Tyndale
Press, 1960], 159, emphasis in bold added)
