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.

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

Now concerning the things that have been spoken, the principal point is this: We have such a high priest, who has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

and these serve the copy and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: See now, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern shown you in the mount.

But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as he is the mediator of a better covenant, which is established with reference to better promises.

In saying, A new covenant, he has regarded the first as out of use. Now, that which is out of use, and has become old, is ready to disappear.

Now, the first covenant also had ordinances of worship, and the worldly sanctuary:

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

Now, when these things were thus arranged, the priests went, at all times, into the first tabernacle, discharging the service of God.

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 then, he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the ages, he has appeared in order to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

Now, where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

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

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.

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.

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the eternal covenant,