I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses.

So then let us once for all quit the elementary teaching about Christ and continue progressing toward maturity; let us stop relaying a foundation of repentance from works that mean only death, and of faith in God,

of teaching about ceremonial washings and the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead and final judgment.

For it is very clear that our Lord sprang from Judah, a tribe about which Moses said nothing as to priests.

For the law appoints imperfect men as high priests, but the assertion about the taking of an oath, which was spoken after the time of the law, appoints a Son who is perfectly qualified to be High Priest forever.

and yet they officiate in a sanctuary that is a mere copy and shadow of the heavenly one, as Moses, when he was about to make the tent of worship, was warned, for, said He, "See to it that you make it all just like the pattern shown you on the mountain."

Then I said, 'See, I have come, just as the Scripture writes about me in the book, O God, to do your will.'"

By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith.

By faith Jacob, when about to die, put his blessing on each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.