[Instances where
sanctified/sanctification is used where one would expect justified/justification
include] Ac 26:18, in which Jesus connects the turning away from Satan to God, and
being forgiven, with sanctification, not justification (“so that they
may receive forgiveness of sin and a place among those who are sanctified [ηγιασμενοις]
by faith in me”); 1Pt 1:2, in which Peter connects predestination with sanctification
(“who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God...through the sanctifying
work of the Spirit” [εν αγιασμω πνευματος]); 2 Thessalonians 2:13, in which sanctification
and faith are connected directly to being chosen for salvation (“...because
from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of
the Spirit [εν αγιασμω πνευματος] and through belief in the truth”); Hb 10:29,
in which the sacred writer connects blood with sanctification (“treated
as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified him [ηγιασθη]”).
(NB: This language would be especially troublesome for the Reformed persuasion,
since the passage specifies this individual has fallen from sanctification.
The Reformed view maintains that sanctification cannot take its place in the ordo
salutis unless justification has already occurred, yet it also maintains
that if one falls from faith, he was never justified originally). See also Jd 1
and Ep 5:26. (Robert A. Sungenis, Not By Faith Alone: The Biblical Evidence
for the Catholic Doctrine of Justification, 2d ed. [State Line, Pa.
Catholic Apologetics International Publishing Inc., 2009], 209 n. 245)
