has in these last days spoken to us by a Son whom he appointed to be the heir of everything and through whom he also made the universe.

so that by these two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to prove false, we who have taken refuge in him might be encouraged to seize the hope set before us.

Above it were the cherubim of glory overshadowing the place of atonement. (We cannot discuss these things in detail now.)

Thus it was necessary for these earthly copies of the things in heaven to be cleansed by these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves are made clean with better sacrifices than these.

Now where there is forgiveness of these sins, there is no longer any offering for sin.

All these people died having faith. They did not receive the things that were promised, yet they saw them in the distant future and welcomed them, acknowledging that they were strangers and foreigners on earth.

All these people won approval for their faith but they did not receive what was promised,