Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to serve on account of those who are about to inherit salvation?

who serve for a symbol and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when about to make the tabernacle; for see, he says, that you make all things after the pattern shown you in the Mount;

By saying new, he made the first old; but that which is ancient and weak is about to perish.

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

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

Be not carried about with various and strange doctrines; for it is good that the mind should be established with grace, not with aliments, in which those walking are not profited.