(for once a man enters his rest, he rests from work just as God did).

Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.

Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

And just as it is appointed for men to die once and after that to be judged,

Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him.

It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect,