While of the angels he said, He makes his angels into winds, His ministering servants into flames of fire.

How faithful he was to the God who appointed him! For while Moses also was faithful in all God's house,

while God himself pronounced him High Priest according to the order of Melchizedek.

Again it is mortal men who receive tithes in the one case; while in the other it is he of whom it is attested, "He lives."

while above it, overshadowing the mercy-seat, were the cherubim of glory. But I must not speak about these in detail.

The Holy Spirit teaching by this that the way into the Holiest has not yet been disclosed while the first tent is still standing.

While, then, it was necessary that the copies of the heavenly things should be cleansed by such sacrifices, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices than these.

For while every priest stands, day after day, at his ministrations, and many times repeats the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

For yet a very, very little while, and then The Coming One will have come, without delay.