For if the divine word spoken by angels held good, if transgression and disobedience met with due punishment in every case,

As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away ??6 it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy.

on the day I took them by the hand to lead out of Egypt's land; for they would not hold to my covenant, so I let them alone, saith the Lord.

containing the golden altar of incense, and also the ark of the covenant covered all over with gold, which held the golden pot of manna, the rod of Aaron that once blossomed, and the tablets of the covenant;

since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

partly by being held up yourselves to obloquy and anguish, partly by making common cause with those who fared in this way;

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.