Seeing then the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself in like manner partook of them; that by death He might destroy him that had the empire of death, that is, the devil:

For if Joshua had given them the rest, He would not afterwards have spoken of another day.

but he, whose pedigree is not reckoned among them, took tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

who hath no need, as the Levitical high-priests had, daily to offer sacrifices first for his own sins, and then for those of the people: for this He did once for all, in offering up Himself.

For if the first covenant had been unexceptionable, there had been no room for a second:

Therefore the first covenant had also rites of worship and a worldly sanctuary.

for after He had said, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and on their minds will I inscribe them;

By faith Enoch was translated, that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God:

By faith also Sarah received strength to conceive seed, and brought forth a son when she was past age, because she accounted Him faithful who had promised.

and if they had been mindful of that from which they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he who had received the promises, offered up his only son;

concluding that God was able to raise him even from the dead; from whence indeed he had in a manner received him.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.

And others had the trial of mockings and scourgings, and of bonds too and imprisonment.

Now if we had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Now this expression "yet once more" signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things which had been appointed only for a season, that those which cannot be shaken may remain.