God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners,

They shall perish; but thou continuest: And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.

Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second.

In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.

Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshippers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

And if indeed they had been mindful of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return.