And again, when he brings the firstbegotten into the world, he says, And let all the angels of God worship him.

And of the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

But unto the Son he says, Your throne, O God, is forever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom.

Therefore (as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you will hear his voice,

As he says also in another place, You are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to explain, seeing you are dull of hearing.

And as I may so say, Levi also, who receives tithes, paid tithes in Abraham.

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.

For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says the Lord.

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and grows old is ready to vanish away.

But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering you desired not, but a body have you prepared me:

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

For we know him that has said, Vengeance belongs unto me, I will recompense, says the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country.

And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.