But exhort one another daily, while it is called To-day, lest any of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not, after this, have spoken of another day.

as he says also in another place, Thou art a priest forever, after the order of Melchisedec.

If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

For he of whom these things are said, belongs to another tribe, from which no one attended upon the altar.

And it is yet far more evident, if, after the likeness of Melchisedec, there arises another priest,

Nor has he entered, that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with the blood of another:

and let us consider one another that we may excite to love and good works,

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.