and again, "As for Me, I will be one whose trust reposes in God;" and again, "Here am I, and here are the children God has given Me."

Moreover here frail mortal men receive tithes: there one receives them about whom there is evidence that he is alive.

On the one hand we have here the abrogation of an earlier code because it was weak and ineffective--

If then He were still on earth, He would not be a priest at all, since here there are already those who present the offerings in obedience to the Law,

All these died in the possession of faith. They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;

Here the words "Yet again, once for all" denote the removal of the things which can be shaken--created things--in order that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

For we have no permanent city here, but we are longing for the city which is soon to be ours.