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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
What is "To do Thy will"? To give up, Myself, He means: This is the will of God. "By which Will we are sanctified." Or he even means something still further, that the sacrifices do not make men clean, but the Will of God. Therefore to offer sacrifice is not the will of God. And why dost thou wonder that it is not the will of God now, when it was not His will even from the beginning? For "who," saith He, "hath required this at your hands?" (Isa. i. 12.) How then did He Himself enjoin it? In condescension. …
Theophylact of Ohrid
By this will of the Father, he says, we were sanctified, having been sanctified by the offering of the body of Christ, which took place "once for all"; for this must be understood. For we who have believed that we are sanctified by the offering of the Only-begotten, are sanctified by the will of the Father. Hence, it is not the legal ordinances that constitute the will of God, but the offering according to Christ and the sanctification through this offering.
Oecumenius
"we have been sanctified." By which will, he says, you are sanctified. Of which? Of the cross, through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ. For we have not only obtained forgiveness, but we have also been sanctified. "the offering of the body of Jesus Christ." Behold, he has interpreted what the will of the Father is; the offering of the body of Christ. For since he was speaking above and below about the will, he then said what the will is. "Once," he says, that is, not in the manner of the Jewish sacrifices, but once. …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
493. – Then (v. 10) he explains what he had said about God's will, for the fulfillment of which Christ came, namely, what that will is. But this will is described in 1 Thessalonians (4:5): 'This is the will of God, your sanctification.' Hence, he says, by that will we are sanctified, and this by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ: 'He has delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God' (Eph. 5:2); once for all: 'Jesus Christ died once for our sins' (1 Pt. 3:18).
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