for after Moses had announced every command in the Law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, together with water, scarlet wool and hyssop, sprinkling the book and all the people,

So I said, 'Here I come ??in the roll of the book this is written of me ??I come to do thy will, O God.'

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

We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back,

and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??19 for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection.

Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;

Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith.

I urge you to this all the more, that I may get back to you the sooner.