Being as much superior to the angels, as He inheriteth a name more excellent than they.

they shall perish, but thou remainest; and they shall all grow old as a garment,

and as a mantle wilt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail."

Are they not all ministring spirits, sent forth to attend on those who shall be heirs of salvation?

since He that sanctifieth, and they that are sanctified, are all of one. For which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

wherefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, They are always erring in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

so I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest."

and to whom did He swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those that were disobedient?

and so we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

for we are graciously offered it, as they also were. But the word, which they heard, did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

For we who believe shall enter into rest, as He said above, "So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" though the works of creation were finished from the foundation of the world:

And yet in this place, "They shall not enter into my rest."

Seeing therefore it remaineth that some are to enter into it, and they to whom it was at first offered did not enter because of their unbelief,

and the powers of the gospel-age, and yet fall away, should be renewed again to repentance: since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and make an open example of Him.

but that which bringeth forth thorns and briars, is rejected and near to a curse, (whose end is burning) so are they.

And those indeed of the sons of Levi, who receive the priesthood, have a commandment according to the law to take tithes of the people, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of the loins of Abraham:

(for they indeed are become priests without the solemnity of an oath; but He with an oath, by Him who said unto Him, "The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec:")

And they were many priests, because they were by death hindered from continuing in their office;

not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind, and I will inscribe them on their hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.

And they shall not teach every one his neighbour, and every one his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the lest even to the greatest of them.

And on this account He is the mediator of a new covenant, that undergoing death for the redemption of transgressions against the first covenant, they that are called might receive the promise of an eternal inheritance.

For the law having but a faint shadow of good things to come, and not the full image of the things, can never, even by the great annual sacrifices which they offer statedly, make the comers thereunto perfect.

For then they would have ceased to be offered, because the sacrificers, being once purified, would no longer retain any consciousness of sins.

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but seen them from afar, and been persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and sojourners on the earth.

Now they that say such things shew plainly that they are seeking their own country:

and if they had been mindful of that from which they came, they might have had opportunity to have returned.

But they desire a better, that is, an heavenly one; wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He hath prepared for them a city.

By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a fine child, and they were not afraid of the king's edict.

By faith they passed through the Red-sea, as by dry land, which the Egyptians attempting to do were drowned.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.

Women received their dead raised to life again; and others were tortured to death, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain by the sword: they went about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins, being destitute, afflicted,

And these all, though they obtained an honorable testimony by faith, yet received not the promise;

God having provided something better concerning us, that without us they might not be made perfect.

For they indeed corrected us for a while, as seemed good to them; but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words, which they that heard, intreated that the word might not any more be thus delivered to them:

(for they could not bear the strict command, if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or shot through with a dart;

See that ye reject not Him that speaketh; for if they escaped not, who rejected him that gave forth divine oracles on earth, much less shall we, if we turn away from Him that speaketh from heaven:

Be ruled by those that are your guides, and submit to them: for they watch for your souls; (as those that must give an account) that they may do it with joy and not with uneasiness: for this were unprofitable for you.

Salute all that preside over you, yea and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.