they shall perish, but thou shalt continue; and they shall all become old like a garment,

For if Joshua caused them to rest he would not have spoken of another day afterwards.

For if he had been on earth he would not have been a priest, there being priests to offer, the gifts according to the law,

For if that first covenant had been faultless, no place would have been sought for the second. [But it was not].

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

if they could, would they not have ceased to be offered, because those serving would have had no longer a knowledge of sins, having been once purified?

And if they had remembered that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return;

And why should I say more? For time would fail me to relate of Gideon and Barak, and Sampson and Jepthah, and David and Samuel and the prophets,