hagios; the primary intent of the word is to set something/someone aside for God’s exclusive use. A little girl who attended worship in a place with a lot of stained glass windows was asked what a saint was. ‘A saint is a person the light shines through,’ she replied. The expression was first applied to Israel as a ‘holy nation’ and it is one which came to be extended to the whole international Christian community, which is the Israel of God (cf. Galatians 6:16). God is the one who, in grace, seized