{We have been sanctified} (h(8867)iasmenoi esmen).
Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of hagiaz(935c), to set
apart, to sanctify. The divine will, unfulfilled in animal
sacrifices, is realized in Christ's offering of himself. "He came
to be a great High Priest, and the body was prepared for him,
that by the offering of it he might put sinful men for ever into
the perfect religious relation to God" (Denney, _The Death of
Christ_, p. 234).