He is the reflection of God's glory and the perfect representation of His being, and continues to uphold the universe by His mighty word. After He had procured man's purification from sins, He took His seat at the right hand of God's majesty,

But to what angel did He ever say: "Just keep your seat at my right hand, until I make your foes a footstool for your feet"?

And the Levitical priests, on the one hand, have become numerous, because they have been prevented by death from continuing in office,

but He, on the other hand, because He Himself lives on forever, enjoys the only priesthood that has no successors in office.

Now the main point in what I am saying is this: We have such a High Priest as this, one who has taken His seat at the right hand of God's majestic throne in heaven

Unlike the one that I made with their forefathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them out from the land of Egypt, for they did not abide by their covenant with me, so I did not care for them,' says the Lord.

So, on the one hand, the copies of the original things in heaven had to be purified with such sacrifices; but on the other hand, the original things themselves in heaven with better sacrifices than these.

On the other hand, through these sacrifices there is given a real reminder of their sins,

But this One offered up once for all and for all time one sacrifice for sins, and once for all took His seat at God's right hand,

keeping our eyes on Jesus, the perfect leader and example of faith, who, instead of the joy which lay before Him, endured the cross with no regard for its shame, and since has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of God.