and those, indeed, out of the sons of Levi receiving the priesthood, a command have to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is, their brethren, even though they came forth out of the loins of Abraham;

who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,

and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return,

For ye came not near to the mount touched and scorched with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest,

But, ye came to Mount Zion, and to a city of the living God, to the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of messengers,