who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,

For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'

And unto which of the messengers said He ever, 'Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'

Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

in its being said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts, as in the provocation,'

for we do enter into the rest -- we who did believe, as He said, 'So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest -- ;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

again He doth limit a certain day, 'To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

For every chief priest -- out of men taken -- in behalf of men is set in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,

that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us,

for he of whom these things are said in another tribe hath had part, of whom no one gave attendance at the altar,

And the sum concerning the things spoken of is: we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,

of the holy places a servant, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord did set up, and not man,

and over it cherubim of the glory, overshadowing the mercy-seat, concerning which we are not now to speak particularly.

then I said, Lo, I come, (in a volume of the book it hath been written concerning me,) to do, O God, Thy will;'

then he said, 'Lo, I come to do, O God, Thy will;' he doth take away the first that the second he may establish;

And He, for sin one sacrifice having offered -- to the end, did sit down on the right hand of God, --

and testify to us also doth the Holy Spirit, for after that He hath said before,

any one who did set at nought a law of Moses, apart from mercies, by two or three witnesses, doth die,

By faith also Sarah herself did receive power to conceive seed, and she bare after the time of life, seeing she did judge Him faithful who did promise;

of whom it was said -- 'In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

looking to the author and perfecter of faith -- Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him -- did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down;

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

and, (so terrible was the sight,) Moses said, 'I am fearful exceedingly, and trembling.'

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, 'No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'