But of the time when he is to bring his firstborn Son back to the world he says, "And let all God's angels bow before him."

Do not harden your hearts as your forefathers provoked me by doing, As in that time of trial in the desert,

Where your forefathers put my doings to the proof for forty years, Though they saw them all the time.

for none of Abraham's posterity was yet begotten at the time of his meeting with Melchizedek.

But in his dissatisfaction with them he says, " 'See! the time is coming,' says the Lord, 'When I will conclude a new agreement with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

And all this looked toward the present time and was symbolic of the fact that the mere offering of material gifts and sacrifices cannot inwardly qualify the worshiper to approach God,

since they have to do only with food and drink and various washings??aterial regulations in force only until the time for the new order.

But Christ has offered for all time one sacrifice for sin, and has taken his seat at God's right hand,

from that time waiting for his enemies to be made his footstool.

Faith made even Sarah herself able to have a child, although she was past the time of life for it, because she thought, that he who had made the promise would keep it.

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets,

put out furious fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in their time of weakness, proved mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.

For they disciplined us for a short time and as they thought proper, but he does it for our good, to make us share his holiness.

Discipline is never pleasant at the time; it is painful; but to those who are trained by it, it afterward yields the peace of character.