I have much to say to you about Him, but it is difficult to make it clear to you, since you have become so dull in your spiritual senses.

since they deal only with food and drink and various washings, that is, with mere material regulations which are in force only until the time of setting things straight.

from that time waiting till His enemies should be made the footstool of His feet.

"In just a very little while, the Coming One will come and not delay;

And why should I continue to mention more? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,