For in the case of those who have been once for all enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift,

Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives."

For a testament is only of force in case of the dead, being never valid so long as the testator lives.

(for in that case he would have needed to suffer repeatedly, ever since the foundation of the world;)but now, once for all, at the end of the ages, he has appeared to abolish sin, but the offering of himself.