For the world to come, of which I am speaking, was not put under the control of angels.

who tasted the goodness of God's word and the powers of the world to come, and then fell away ??6 it is impossible to make them repent afresh, since they crucify the Son of God in their own persons and hold him up to obloquy.

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.'

he then adds, Here I come to do thy will. He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

You have not come to what you can touch, to flames of fire, to mist and gloom and stormy blasts,

You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering,

(for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come).