how shall *we* escape if we are indifferent to a salvation as great as that now offered to us? This, after having first of all been announced by the Lord Himself, had its truth made sure to us by those who heard Him,

But, as we know, a writer has solemnly said, "How poor a creature is man, and yet Thou dost remember him, and a son of man, and yet Thou dost come to him!

How faithful He was to Him who appointed Him, just as Moses also was faithful in all God's house!

and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away--

In the same way, since it was God's desire to display more convincingly to the heirs of the promise how unchangeable His purpose was,

Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.

how much more certainly shall the blood of Christ, who strengthened by the eternal Spirit offered Himself to God, free from blemish, purify your consciences from lifeless works for you to serve the ever-living God?

How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted the Spirit from whom comes grace?

Remember your former leaders--it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.