God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,

For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,

The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:

For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship.

Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath].

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

For, they who such things as these are saying, make it clear that, of a paternal home they are in quest;