and as a mantle thou shalt fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister to those who shall inherit salvation?

For not to angels has he subjected the world to come of which we speak.

thou hast put all things under his feet. For, in putting all things under him, he left nothing that is not put under him: but now we do not yet see all things put under him.

For both he that sanctifies, and those who are sanctified, are all of one Father: for which reason, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

For, verily, he does not take hold of angels, but he takes hold of the posterity of Abraham.

harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation, in the day of trial in the wilderness,

Where fore, I was angry with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so that I swore in my anger, They shall not enter into my rest.

while it is said, To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation.

For some, when they had heard, did bitterly provoke; yet, not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?

But to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who believed not?

And so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

For we have had the good news preached to us, even as they had: but the word preached did not profit them, for it was not mixed with faith in those who heard it.

For we who have believed are to enter into rest, as he said: So I swore in my anger, they shall not enter into my rest; namely, that rest from his works which had been finished from the foundation of the world.

and in this place again: They shall not enter into my rest.

Since, then, it remains that some must enter into it, and they, to whom the good news was first preached, did not enter in on account of unbelief,

again, he determines a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time, To-day, as it is said, To day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not, after this, have spoken of another day.

And there is no creature which is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked, and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give an ac count.

For we have not a high priest that can not sympathize with our infirmities; but he was tempted in all things like ourselves, yet without sin.

Let us come, therefore, with boldness, to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in every time of need.

So, also, the Christ did not take upon himself the honor of becoming a high priest: but he gave him this honor, who said to him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee:

For though you ought to be teachers, considering the time, yet you have need that some one teach you again what are the first elements of the oracles of God; and you have be come such as have need of milk, and not of strong food.

Therefore, omitting the elementary Christian teaching, let us go on to the perfection of Christian instruction, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

that you may not become slothful, but imitators of those who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.

but he who does not count his genealogy from them, received tithes from Abraham, and blessed him that had the promises.

If, then, there had been a perfect expiation by means of the Levitical priesthood, (for with reference to it, the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should be raised up after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

who is made, not according to the law of a fleshly commandment, but according to the power of an endless life; for he testifies,

And inasmuch as he was made a priest, not without an oath,

(for those priests were made such without an oath, but this one with an oath, by him that said to him, The Lord swore, and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec;)

who needs not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

a minister of the holy places, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

For if he were on earth, he could not be a priest; because there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

not like the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.

and they shall not teach, every one his citizen, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least of them to the greatest;

and over the ark, the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we can not now speak particularly.

But into the second, the high priest alone went, once during the year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

the Holy Spirit signifying this, that the way into the most holy was not yet made manifest, while the first tabernacle was still standing,

which, as a symbol, remains to the present time, in which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that can not make perfect, as it respects the conscience, him that does the service;

But Christ, having come a high priest of the good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, (that is, not of this building,)

entered, not by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, once for all, into the most holy, having obtained eternal redemption.

Wherefore, the first covenant was not instituted without blood.

For the Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, the copies of the true; but he has entered heaven itself, now to present himself in the presence of God for us.

For the law, having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never, with the same sacrifices, which they offer year by year continually, make a perfect expiation for those who come to them:

for then, would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, after being once cleansed, would no longer have a consciousness of sins.

Wherefore, when he comes into the world, he says: Sacrifice and offering thou hast not desired, but a body thou hast prepared me;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

Cast not away, therefore, your confidence, which has a great reward.

For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

For yet a very, very little while, and He that comes will come, and will not delay.

But we are not of those who draw back to perdition; but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.

Now, faith is a sure confidence with respect to things hoped for, a firm persuasion with respect to things not seen:

By faith we understand that the ages were set in order by the word of God, so that the things which are seen, have not come into being from things that appear.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had the testimony that he pleased God.

By faith Noah, after being warned concerning things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the salvation of his house; by which faith he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

By faith Abraham, when called to go out into a place that he should afterward receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. and having embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners in the land.

But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, that he should be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses was concealed by his parents for three months after his birth, because they saw that he was a beautiful child: and they feared not the command of the king.

By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king: for he patiently endured, as seeing him that is invisible.

By faith he kept the passover, and the affusion of blood, that he who destroyed the first-born might not touch them.

By faith Rabab the harlot perished not with the disobedient, because she had received the spies with peace.

Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were beat to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

(of whom the world was not worthy,) wandering in deserts, and in mountains, and in caverns, and in dens of the earth.

And all these, having obtained a good reputation by faith, received not the promise,

because God had provided some better thing for us, that they, without us, should not be made perfect.

You have not yet resisted to blood, in your contest with sin;

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.

If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is there whose father chastens him not?

But if you are without chastisement, of which all are par takers, then are you bastards, and not sons.

So, then, we have had fathers of our flesh who corrected us, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of our spirits, and live?

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and that burns with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest,

and to the sound of a trumpet, and to the utterance of words, the hearing of which utterance caused the people to entreat that the word might not be spoken to them again;

for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned:

See that you reject not him that speaks: for if they es caped not who rejected that earthly man who gave the oracles, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that is from heaven,

whose voice then shook the earth; but now he has promised, saying, Yet once more I will shake not the earth only, but also the heaven.

And this prophecy, Yet once more, signifies the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that the things which can not be shaken may remain.

Wherefore, as we receive a kingdom that can not be shaken, let us have gratitude, by which we may serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear:

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for, by this means, some have unconsciously entertained angels.

So, then, we may boldly say: The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man will do to me.

Be not carried away by various and strange teachings: for it is good that the heart be strengthened with grace, not with meats, which have not profited those who were occupied with them.

But forget not to do good, and to be liberal: for with such, sacrifices God is well pleased.

Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.