For to which of the angels ever said he, "My Son art thou, I have to-day begotten thee?" And again, "I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?"

Unto which indeed of the angels said he ever, "Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies for a footstool of thy feet?"

Wherefore I was provoked against that generation, and said, They are always deluded in heart, and they have not known my ways:

while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.

For we who have believed, have entered into the rest, even as he said, "So, I sware in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest;" and that notwithstanding the works were done from the foundation of the world.

For he said in a certain passage concerning the seventh day to this purport, "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works."

again he limiteth a certain day, saying by David, To-day, after so long a time; as it is said, "To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts."

(for they indeed were made priests without an oath; but he with an oath, by him who said unto him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

then I said, Here am I; (in the volume of the book it is written of me) I come to do thy will, O God."

Having said before that sacrifice, and oblation, and whole burnt-offerings and sin-offerings thou hast not chosen, nor takest pleasure in, (which are offered according to the law,)

unto whom it had been said, "That by Isaac shall there be a seed bearing thy name:"

and so terrible was the appearance, that Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and trembling:

Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee."