By faith Abraham, being tested, offered Isaac. And he who received the promises offered his only begotten son,

For to which of the heavenly agents did he ever say, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee? And again, I will be to him for a Father, and he will be to me for a Son?

So also Christ did not glorify himself to become a high priest, but it was he who said to him, Thou are my Son, today I have begotten thee.

And therefore from one man, and these things having become deadened, were begotten as the stars of the heaven for multitude, and as the sand of the seashore, countless.

but Christ as a Son over his house, whose house we are, if only we keep in possession our confidence and pride of hope, firm until the end.

For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,

only in foods and drinks and various washings: carnal ordinances imposed until a time of reformation.

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