Maybe I have failed to convince you Clare, but someone else out there might have been.
I wonder, is the phrase "once for all" intended to be completed as "once for all time" or as "once for all people"?
Romans 6:10The death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God.
Hebrews 7:27He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did this once for all when he offered up himself.
Hebrews 9:12he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Hebrews 9:26for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Hebrews 10:10And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
1 Peter 3:18For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;
Jude 1:3Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.