God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake of old to the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son;

They shall perish, but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

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

But we desire that every one of you would shew unto the end the same diligence, to the full assurance of hope,

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

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

Otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered? Because the worshipers, having been once purged, would have had no more consciousness of sins.

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