taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.

how shall we escape if we have been negligent of so great salvation, which, having had its commencement in being spoken of by the Lord, has been confirmed to us by those who have heard;

thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in subjecting all things to him, he has left nothing unsubject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him,

but we see Jesus, who was made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

where your fathers tempted me, by proving me, and saw my works forty years.

so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

See, brethren, lest there be in any one of you a wicked heart of unbelief, in turning away from the living God.

And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

again he determines a certain day, saying, in David, 'To-day,' after so long a time; (according as it has been said before), To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

Concerning whom we have much to say, and hard to be interpreted in speaking of it, since ye are become dull in hearing.

and, so to speak, through Abraham, Levi also, who received tithes, has been made to pay tithes.

by so much Jesus became surety of a better covenant.

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

But now he has got a more excellent ministry, by so much as he is mediator of a better covenant, which is established on the footing of better promises.

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,

And for this reason he is mediator of a new covenant, so that, death having taken place for redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, the called might receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the custom is with some; but encouraging one another, and by so much the more as ye see the day drawing near.

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

Wherefore also there have been born of one, and that of one become dead, even as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the countless sand which is by the sea shore.

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter;

By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up.

And what more do I say? For the time would fail me telling of Gideon, and Barak, and Samson, and Jephthah, and David and Samuel, and of the prophets:

Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,

For consider well him who endured so great contradiction from sinners against himself, that ye be not weary, fainting in your minds.

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:

and, so fearful was the sight, Moses said, I am exceedingly afraid and full of trembling;)

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

So that, taking courage, we may say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid: what will man do unto me?

Know that our brother Timotheus is set at liberty; with whom, if he should come soon, I will see you.