For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself,

For, verily, men swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all contradiction.

But Christ, having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, (that is, not of this building,)

esteeming the reproach on account of the Christ as greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he earnestly looked to the reward.