and release from thraldom those who lay under a life-long fear of death.

And no created thing is hidden from him; all things lie open and exposed before the eyes of him with whom we have to reckon.

Those sons of Levi who receive the priestly office are indeed ordered by law to tithe the people (that is, their brothers), although the latter are descended from Abraham;

Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron

(for when the priesthood is changed, a change of law necessarily follows)?

one who has become a priest by the power of an indissoluble Life and not by the law of an external command;

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and there is introduced a better Hope, by means of which we can draw near to God.

For the Law appoints human beings in their weakness to the priesthood; but the word of the Oath appoints a Son who is made perfect for ever.

Were he on earth, he would not be a priest at all, for there are priests already to offer the gifts prescribed by Law

one citizen will no longer teach his fellow, one man will no longer teach his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all will know me, low and high together.

for after Moses had announced every command in the Law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkling the book and all the people,

In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

He begins by saying, thou hast no desire for, thou takest no delight in, sacrifices and offerings and holocausts and sin-offerings (and these are what are offered in terms of the Law);

And their sins and breaches of the law I will remember no more.

Anyone who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy, on the evidence of two or of three witnesses.