Witsius points out that holiness is not just abstaining from sin, but a fervent desire to please, to know, and to enjoy oneself in God.
It is finely observed by a learned man, that true holiness is not only opposed to hypocrisy or simulation, or to typical purity, but that it denotes a holy study of truth, proceeding from the love of God. For, osios, to which answers the Hebrew TJSPT,signifies in Scripture, one studious in, and eager after good. This true holiness,therefore denotes such a desire, of pleasing God, as is agreeable to the truth known of, and in him, and loved for him.
(Note that osios is a Greek word for holiness. JT)
p. 54, Witsius, "The Economy of the Covenants"
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