Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth for service in behalf of those who are about to inherit salvation?

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, bearing testimony to a witness about to be spoken;

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fiery indignation which is about to devour the adversaries.

By faith Abraham, when he was put to the test, was on the point of offering up Isaac; yes, he who had received the promise was about to offer up his only son,

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

Seeing then that we are encircled with this great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and the sin that clings about us. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,