how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

For he has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by how much he that has built it has more honour than the house.

Now consider how great this personage was, to whom even the patriarch Abraham gave a tenth out of the spoils.

And by how much it was not without the swearing of an oath;

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

of how much worse punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and esteemed the blood of the covenant, whereby he has been sanctified, common, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?