Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity; for this God anointed thee, thy God, with the oil of lively joy above thy partakers.

And to which of the angels has he once said, Sit on my right hand, till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet?

For not to the angels has he subjected the habitable globe about to be, of which we speak.

For in that he himself has suffered, having been tempted, he is able to help the tempted.

For this was deemed worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he has greater honour of the house having built it.

For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.

And as the word says, through Abraham, also Levi, receiving tenths, has paid a tenth.

For it is manifest that our Lord has sprung out of Judah; to which tribe Moses spake nothing of the priesthood.

And it is yet more abundantly manifest: that according to the resemblance of Melchisedec has another priest risen,

According to this, Jesus has become security of a better covenant.

And he, because he remains forever, has an inviolable priesthood.

Who has no necessity according to the day, as the chief priests, before to bring up sacrifices for their own sins, then for those of the people; for this he did once, having brought up himself.

And now he has attained a more distinguished office, in how much also he is mediator of a better covenant, which was legislated upon better promises.

In saying new, he has made the first old. And that made old and becoming weak is near destruction.

For a will is firm by the dead: since it has no power when he having willed lives.

(Since he must have suffered many times from the foundation of the world:) but now once at the termination of the times for the annulling of sin by the sacrifice of himself has he been shown clearly.

Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:

And truly every priest has stood daily, serving and bringing in many times the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

For by one offering has he perfected forever the consecrated.

Throw not away therefore your freedom of speech, which has great payment of reward.

By faith he has kept the pascha, and the pouring out of blood, lest he destroying the first born should touch them.

Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

The disposition exempt from avarice; being contented with present circumstances: for he has said, I will not send thee back, nor forsake thee.