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

For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers once purged should have had no more consciousness of sins.

And what shall I say more? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthah; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets:

For you know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.