And of the angels he says: Who makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, and pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

and on account of this, he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to make offering for sins.

Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

of the teaching with respect to immersions, and of the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal condemnation.

But that which produces thorns and thistles is rejected, and is near the curse, the end of which is to be burned.

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.

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

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life, but being made to resemble the Son of God, remains a priest forever.

a minister of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

For when Moses had spoken to all the people every commandment of the law, lie took the blood of calves and of goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying:

for then, he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the ages, he has appeared in order to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

And what further shall I say? For the time would fail me, were I to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel, and of the prophets,