Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

Since then it is reserved for some to enter it, and since those who formerly got the good news failed to enter owing to their disobedience,

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness ??3 which obliges him to present offerings for his own sins as well as for those of the People.

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.

For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater),

Also, while they became priests in large numbers, since death prevents them from continuing to serve,

he holds his priesthood without any successor, since he continues for ever.

since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions ??outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.

Brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy Presence in virtue of the blood of Jesus,

and since we have a great Priest over the house of God,

Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body.