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Joh 17:19. Ἐγὼ ἁγιάζω ἐμαυτὸν, I sanctify Myself) I dedicate and consecrate Myself wholly to Thee. They are going out into the world for My sake; I, moreover, am going to Thee, also for their good. An Euphemism, appropriate to the love of Christ: I sanctify Myself, in enduring death, and that the death of the cross.-ἡγιασμένοι, sanctified) It is of such as these, and of them only, that the Canonisation is truly being made by the Lord Himself: 1Pe 3:18, “Christ hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, to bring us to God;” 2Co 5:15, “He died for all, that they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again.”-ἐν ἀληθείᾳ, in [through] the truth) even though it may not appear externally. This is contrasted with ceremonial sanctimony.