Hebrews 10:10

ἐν ᾧ θελήματι … “in which will,” that is, in the will which Christ came to do (Hebrews 10:9), “we have been made fit for God's presence and fellowship by means of the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all”. The will of God which the O.T. sacrifices could not accomplish was the “sanctification” of men, that is, the bringing of men into true fellowship with God. This will has been accomplished, we have been cleansed and introduced into God's fellowship through the offering of the body of Christ. By the use of the word προσφορᾶς the writer shows that it was not a mere general obedience to the will of God he had in view, but the fulfilment of God's will in the particular form of yielding Himself to a sacrificial death. His obedience in order to become an atoning sacrifice took a particular form, the form of “tasting death for every man”. [For a different view see Bruce in loc. and Gould's N.T. Theol., p. 169. On the other hand see Riehm and Macdonell's Donellan Lectures, p. 49 59.] τοῦ σώματος Ἰ. Χριστοῦ ἐφάπαξ, the offering of the body must of course be taken in connection with Hebrews 9:14, διὰ πνεύματος αἰωνίου and also with the defining words Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. ἐφάπαξ is added in contrast to the note of inferiority attaching to the O.T. sacrifices, as given in Hebrews 10:1, their need of continual renewal.