Since then the children have partaken of blood and flesh, he in like manner also partook of them, that through death he might destroy him that has the power of death, that is the devil,

Since then it remains that some entered into it, and those to whom it was first preached entered not in on account of unbelief,

being able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he is himself encompassed with infirmity,

For a covenant is strong for the dead, since it is never strong [unalterable] when the covenant-maker lives;

since it was necessary that it should suffer often from the foundation of the world, but now once at the consummation of the world he has been manifested to destroy sins by the sacrifice of himself.