Ezekiel 20:41

you withyour sweet savour Lit. amidst, or, insweet savour (i.e. when I smell it) I will accept you. The expression is used literally of the sweet smoke of sacrifice, hardly figuratively of Jehovah's complaisance. R.V., asa sweet savour, is wholly improbable.

be sanctified in you Lit. get me sanctifying in (through) you in the sight of the heathen (or, shew myself holy). On the idea of "sanctify" cf. Ezekiel 20:9 be recognised as God. The dispersion of Jehovah's people derogated in the eyes of the heathen from his power (ch. Ezekiel 36:20); when they see his people restored the heathen will know that it was for their iniquity that they were cast out (ch. Ezekiel 39:23), particularly when after restoration and purification they see them protected against the countless hosts of Gog by Jehovah's arm. Thus Jehovah will "through" his people, by his dealing with them in their restoration, approve himself as God that which God is in the sight of the heathen.