Being so much better than the angels, inasmuch as he has inherited a more distinguished name than they.

These shall be destroyed; but thou remainest; and they all as a garment shall grow old;

And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Are they not all spirits qualified for service, sent forth for service for them about to inherit salvation?

For be consecrating and they being consecrated all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,

Wherefore I was offended with that generation and I said, They always wander in heart; and they knew not my ways.

As I aware in my wrath, If they shall come into my rest.)

For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses.

And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient?

And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

For we having believed come into the rest, as he said, As I sware in my wrath, if they shall come into my rest: although the works having been from the foundation of the world.

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

Since therefore it remains for some to come into it, and they before announced of the good news came not in through unbelief:

And they truly of the sons of Levi, receiving the office of priest, have a command to take a tenth part from the people according to the law, that is, from their brethren, although having come out of the loins of Abraham:

(For they truly without sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath became priests; but he with the sacrifice sanctioned by solemn oath by him, saying to him, The Lord sware, and will not repent, Thou priest forever, according to the order of Melchisedec:)

And they truly are become many priests, by reason of death being hindered from remaining:

Not according to the covenant which I made to their fathers in the day of my taking their hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; for they remained not in my covenant, and I heeded them not, says the Lord.

For this the covenant which I will set to the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; giving my laws into their mind, and upon their hearts will I write them: and I will be to them for God, and they shall be to me for a people:

And they should not teach each his neighbor, and each his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from their little even to their great ones.

For the law having a shadow of good things about to be, not the same image of the things, with these sacrifices which they bring in yearly in continuance never can render perfect them coming thereto.

For would they not have ceased to be brought in? because they serving have no more consciousness of sins, once purified.

Wherefore also from one were they born, and these of him having been dead, as the stars of heaven for multitude, and as the sand near the lip of the sea innumerable.

According to faith died all these, not having received the promises, but having seen them from afar, and been persuaded, and having embraced, and assented that they are strangers and newly arrived from a foreign country upon earth.

For they saying such things show clearly that they seek a country.

And truly if they remembered that from which they came out, they had time to have returned.

And now they feel an ardent desire for a better, that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be called their God: for he prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, born, was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw a shrewd child; and they were not afraid of the edict of the king.

By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians having tried were swallowed down.

Women received their dead from rising up: and others were beaten, not receiving redemption; that they might attain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were cut by sawing, they were tried, they died by the slaughter of the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being in want, pressed, treated ill;

God having foreseen something better for us, that without us they should not be completed.

For they truly for a few days, according as it seemed to them, corrected; but he for profit, in order to partake in his holiness.

And to the sound of the trumpet, and the voice of words; which they, having heard, implored that the word be not put before them:

(For they did not bear that being assigned, And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shall be pierced with a missile weapon:

See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens:

With various and strange teachings be not carried about. For good the heart be rendered firm by grace; not by food, in which they having walked about were not profited.

We have an altar, of which they serving the tent have no power to eat.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

They from Italy greet you. Grace with you all. Amen.