For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not after this be speaking of another day.

For if, indeed, he were on earth, he would not be a priest, since there are those that offer the gifts according to the Law;

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then a place would not have been sought for a second.

For in that case would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshippers, having been once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

And if indeed they had been mindful of that from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return;

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