for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

If indeed, then, perfection were through the Levitical priesthood -- for the people under it had received law -- what further need, according to the order of Melchisedek, for another priest to arise, and not to be called according to the order of Aaron?

for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,

It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;

By faith Enoch was translated -- not to see death, and was not found, because God did translate him; for before his translation he had been testified to -- that he had pleased God well,

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

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

Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live?