DEFINITIVE SANCTIFICATION Sanctification is generally thought of as a process, and there is certainly a sense in which it is. But the New Testament often represents the Christian as one who has been sanctified, and therefore as one who has been definitively constituted in some way and on some basis holy (see Acts 20:32; 26:18; 1 Cor. 1:2; 6:11; Eph. 5:26; note the perfect tense of ἁγιάζω, hagiazō in the first three references and the aorist tense in the last two references, as well as the numerous