Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 9:27

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment .

The Proof of the necessity of Christ's suffering Death but once, is introduced in this Verse by the Conjunction And. It was according to God's decreed and published Statute of Mens but once dying; for God the Supreme Lord, Governour and Judge of them, set, constituted, and appointed by an unalterable and irrevocable Decree, as Law-giver, and Sentence, as Judge to all of the sinful Humane Race, the corrupt Seed of Apostate Adam, their grand Representative, whom God threatned with this Penalty upon his sinning and transgressing his Law, Gen. 2.17. which Sentence was denounced upon him, Gen. 3.19. comp. Rom. 5.12, 14. and 6.23. This Sentence was but once to be undergone by himself and all his sinful Off-spring, and by their Surety, and no more; so that the second Adam needed but once to die by this Statute. No Man can keep himself from this, it being the general Rule of God's proceeding with all Persons. The Supreme Legislator may make what Exception and Proviso's to his Law he pleaseth. Those that were translated by him, did suffer a Change proportionable to Death, as Enoch, ch. 11.5. Gen. 5.24. and Elias, 2 King. 2.11, 12. and those that shall be changed at Christ's coming, must undergoe the like, as 1 Cor. 15.51, to 55. and 1 Thess. 4.17. Those that were raised from Death by Christ, Peter and Paul, &c. God might glorifie his Name by reiterating it; but whether they did die again, is not certain. This is to be the general setled Law and Rule of God.

In order, after Souls by Death are separated from their Bodies, they come to Iudgment: And thus every particular one is handed over by Death to the Bar of God, the great Judge, and so is dispatched by his Sentence to its particular State and Place with its respective People, Rom. 14.12. At the great and general Assize, the Day of Judgment, shall the General and Universal One take place, Acts 17.31. when all Sinners in their entire Persons, Bodies and Souls united, shall be adjudged to their final, unalterable and eternal State, Rom. 14.10. and 2 Cor. 5.10. Iude v. 6. Rev. 20.11, to 15.