Now Moses was indeed faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of the things which were to be spoken:

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

Now without all contradiction the inferior is blessed by the superior:

Now if perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law) what farther need was there that another priest should arise after the order of Melchisedec, and not after the order of Aaron?

Now He, of whom these things are said, is of another tribe, of which none ever attended at the altar..

Now the sum of the things that have been said is this, that we have such an high-priest, who is sat down at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in the heavens;

But now He hath obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also the mediator of a better covenant, which is established upon better promises.

Now by saying, a new covenant, He hath antiquated the first: and what is antiquated, and groweth old, is near it's exit.

and over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat: of which it is not necessary now to speak particularly.

Now these things being thus disposed, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle to perform their daily services:

For Christ is not entered into holy places made with hands, which were but types of the true ones; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

(for then He must indeed have suffered often since the foundation of the world) but now once at the conclusion of the ages He hath been made manifest for the abolishing of sin by the sacrifice of himself.

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

Now faith is the confident expectation of things hoped for, and a conviction of things not seen:

Now they that say such things shew plainly that they are seeking their own country:

Now if we had fathers of our flesh, who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

Now no chastening seems for the present to be matter of joy but of grief: and yet afterwards it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those that are exercised thereby.

whose voice then shook the earth; but now He hath promised, saying, "Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also the heaven."

Now this expression "yet once more" signifieth the removing of the things that are shaken, as of things which had been appointed only for a season, that those which cannot be shaken may remain.

Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the everlasting covenant,