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."

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, in so far as he who has built a house has higher honour than the house itself.

For this reason--as the Holy Spirit warns us, "To-day, if you hear His voice,

seeing that the warning still comes to us, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as your forefathers did in the time of the provocation."

He again definitely mentions a certain day, "To-day," saying long afterwards, by David's lips, in the words already quoted, "To-day, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts."

For if Joshua had given them the true rest, we should not afterwards hear God speaking of another still future day.

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,

Through faith Noah, being divinely taught about things as yet unseen, reverently gave heed and built an ark for the safety of his family, and by this act he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which depends on faith.

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.

You will rejoice to hear that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty. If he comes soon, I will see you with him.