taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

They shall perish, but thou continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,

and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?

Wherefore I was wroth with this generation, and said, They always err in heart; and they have not known my ways;

so I swore in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest.

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who had not hearkened to the word?

And we see that they could not enter in on account of unbelief;)

For indeed we have had glad tidings presented to us, even as they also; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard.

For we enter into the rest who have believed; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, If they shall enter into my rest; although the works had been completed from the foundation of the world.

and in this again, If they shall enter into my rest.

and have fallen away, crucifying for themselves as they do the Son of God, and making a show of him.

And they indeed from among the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have commandment to take tithes from the people according to the law, that is from their brethren, though these are come out of the loins of Abraham:

(for they are become priests without the swearing of an oath, but he with the swearing of an oath, by him who said, as to him, The Lord has sworn, and will not repent of it, Thou art priest for ever according to the order of Melchisedec;)

And they have been many priests, on account of being hindered from continuing by death;

not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I did not regard them, saith the Lord.

Because this is the covenant that I will covenant to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their mind, I will write them also upon their hearts; and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for people.

And they shall not teach each his fellow-citizen, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord; because all shall know me in themselves, from the little one among them unto the great among them.

For the law, having a shadow of the coming good things, not the image itself of the things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually yearly, perfect those who approach.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

All these died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar off and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, being born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw the child beautiful; and they did not fear the injunction of the king.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as through dry land; of which the Egyptians having made trial were swallowed up.

Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;

They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,

God having foreseen some better thing for us, that they should not be made perfect without us.

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

and trumpet's sound, and voice of words; which they that heard, excusing themselves, declined the word being addressed to them any more:

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

Obey your leaders, and be submissive; for they watch over your souls as those that shall give account; that they may do this with joy, and not groaning, for this would be unprofitable for you.

Salute all your leaders, and all the saints. They from Italy salute you.