but Christ was faithful as a Son having authority over God's house, and we are that house, if we hold firm to the End the boldness and the hope which we boast of as ours.

and must be one who is able to bear patiently with the ignorant and erring, because he himself also is beset with infirmity.

Now think how great this priest-king must have been to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth part of the best of the spoil.

And let us bestow thought on one another with a view to arousing one another to brotherly love and right conduct;

But continually recall to mind the days now past, when on being first enlightened you went through a great conflict and many sufferings.

Through faith even Sarah herself received strength to become a mother--although she was past the time of life for this--because she judged Him faithful who had given the promise.

For they could not endure the order which had been given, "Even a wild beast, if it touches the mountain, shall be stoned to death;"