and is therefore bound to offer sacrifices for sins, not only for the People, but equally so for himself.

But about you, dear friends, even though we speak in this way, we are confident of better things--of things that point to your Salvation.

Men, of course, swear by what is greater than themselves, and with them an oath is accepted as putting a matter beyond all dispute.

And therefore God, in his desire to show, with unmistakable plainness, to those who were to enter on the enjoyment of what he had promised, the unchangeableness of his purpose, bound himself with an oath.

and that he was appointed, not under a Law regulating only earthly matters, but by virtue of a life beyond the reach of death;