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And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert?
Thus we see it was owing to unbelief that they could not enter.
For we have had the good news as well as they; only, the message they heard was of no use to them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
Also, it is an office which no one elects to take for himself; he is called to it by God, just as Aaron was.
Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.
In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.
Thus, Son though he was, he learned by all he suffered how to obey,
Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised.
for he was still in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
Further, if the Levitical priesthood had been the means of reaching perfection (for it was on the basis of that priesthood that the Law was enacted for the People), why was it still necessary for another sort of priest to emerge with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of simply with the rank of Aaron
A better Hope, because it was not promised apart from an oath.
Such was the high priest for us, saintly, innocent, unstained, lifted high above the heavens, far from all contact with the sinful,
(men who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly ??as Moses was instructed, when he was about to execute the building of the tabernacle: see, God said, that you make everything on the pattern shown you upon the mountain).
A tent was set up, the outer tent, containing the lampstand, the table, and the loaves of the Presence; this is called the Holy place.
But behind the second veil was the tent called the Holy of Holies,
By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent
(which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect,
But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),
Hence even the first covenant of God's will was not inaugurated apart from blood;
Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, like the high priest entering the holy place every year with blood that was not his own: ??26 for in that case he would have had to suffer repeatedly, ever since the world was founded. Nay, once for all, at the end of the world, he has appeared with his self-sacrifice to abolish sin.
How much heavier, do you suppose, will be the punishment assigned to him who has spurned the Son of God, who has profaned the covenant-blood with which he was sanctified, who has insulted the Spirit of grace?
It was for this that the men of old won their record.
It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible.
It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.
It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven, so that he never died (he was not overtaken by death, for God had taken him away). For before he was taken to heaven, his record was that he had satisfied God;
It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith.
It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go.
It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise;
he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it ??because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise.
Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore.
It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises
and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned ??19 for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection.
It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in connexion with the future.
It was by faith that, when Jacob was dying, he blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bending in prayer over the head of his staff.
It was by faith that Joseph at his end thought about the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders about his own bones.
It was by faith that Moses was hidden for three months after birth by his parents, because they saw the child was beautiful, and had no fear of the royal decree.
It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched.
It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born.
It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea like dry land ??and when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned.
It was by faith that the walls of Jericho collapsed, after being surrounded for only seven days.
It was by faith that Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, as she had welcomed the scouts peaceably.
(men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.
For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness.
You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears.
(for they could not bear the command, If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned) ??21 indeed, so awful was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified and aghast.
It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
he glances at himself, goes off, and at once forgets what he was like.
When our father Abraham offered his son Isaac on the altar, was he not justified by what he did?
In his case, you see, faith co-operated with deeds, faith was completed by deeds,
and the scripture was fulfilled: Abraham believed God, and this was counted to him as righteousness ??he was called God's friend.
So too with Rahab the harlot. Was she not justified by what she did, when she entertained the scouts and got them away by a different road?
Elijah was a man with a nature just like our own; but he offered prayer that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain;
Even prophets have searched and inquired about that salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that was meant for you;
the Spirit of messiah within them foretold all the suffering of messiah and his after-glory, and they pondered when or how this was to come;
to them it was revealed that they got this intelligence not for themselves but for you, regarding all that has now been disclosed to you by those who preached the gospel to you through the holy Spirit sent from heaven. The very angels long to get a glimpse of this!
you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,
He was predestined before the foundation of the world and has appeared at the end of the ages for your sake;
He committed no sin, no guile was ever found upon his lips;
he was reviled and made no retort, he suffered and never threatened, but left everything to Him who judges justly;
It was in this way long ago that the holy women who hoped in God adorned themselves. They were submissive to their husbands.
Christ himself died for sins, once for all, a just man for unjust men, that he might bring us near to God; in the flesh he was put to death but he came to life in the Spirit.
(It was in the Spirit that Enoch also went and preached to the imprisoned spirits
(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).
Now I make this appeal to your presbyters (for I am a presbyter myself, I was a witness of what Christ suffered and I am to share the glory that will be revealed),
For it was no fabricated fables that we followed when we reported to you the power and advent of our Lord Jesus Christ; we were admitted to the spectacle of his sovereignty,
when he was invested with honour and glory by God the Father, and when the following voice was borne to him from the sublime Glory, "This is my son, the Beloved, in whom I delight."
for prophecy never came by human impulse, it was when carried away by the holy Spirit that the holy men of God spoke.
if he reduced the cities of Sodom and Gomorra to ashes when he sentenced them to devastation, and thus gave the impious an example of what was in store for them,
but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless
(for when that righteous man resided among them, by what he saw and heard his righteous soul was vexed day after day with their unlawful doings) ??9 then be sure the Lord knows how to rescue pious folk from trial, and how to keep the unrighteous under punishment till the day of doom,
Better had they never known the Way of righteousness, than to know it and then turn back from the holy command which was committed to them.
By water the then-existing world was deluged and destroyed,
(the Life has appeared; we saw it, we testify to it, we bring you word of that eternal Life which existed with the Father and was disclosed to us) ??3 it is of what we heard and saw that we bring you word, so that you may share our fellowship; and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
and every spirit which does not confess Jesus [incarnate] does not come from God. This latter is the spirit of antichrist; you were told it was coming, and here it is already in the world.
We know that anyone who is born of God does not sin; He who was born of God preserves him, and the evil One never catches him.
I was overjoyed to find some of your children leading the true Life, as we were commanded to do by the Father.
For I was overjoyed when some brothers arrived and testified to the truth of your life, as indeed you do lead the true Life;
Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;
Now the very archangel Michael, when he disputed the body of Moses with Satan, did not dare to condemn him with scoffs; what he said was, The Lord rebuke you!
It was of these, too, that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied, when he said, Behold the Lord comes with myriads of his holy ones,
John to the seven churches in Asia: grace be to you and peace from HE WHO IS AND WAS AND IS COMING, and from the seven Spirits before his throne,
"I am the alpha and the omega," saith the Lord God, who is and was and is coming, the almighty.
So I turned to see whose voice it was that spoke to me; and on turning round I saw seven golden lampstands
I was dead and here I am alive for evermore, holding the keys that unlock death and Hades.
Then to the angel of the church at Smyrna write thus: ??These are the words of the First and Last, who was dead and came to life:
I know where you dwell, where Satan sits enthroned, and yet you adhere to my Name, you have not renounced your faith in me even during the days when my witness, my faithful Antipas, was martyred in your midst ??where Satan dwells.
After this I looked, and there was a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice I had heard talking with me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must come to pass after this."
The four living Creatures, each with six wings apiece, are full of eyes all over their bodies and under their wings, and day and night they never cease the chant, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God almighty, who was and is and is coming."
"Thou deservest, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honour and power, for it was thou who didst create all things: they existed and were created by thy will."
Then I saw lying on the right hand of him who was seated on the throne, a scroll with writing on the back, as well as inside, sealed with seven seals.
But no one was fit, either in heaven or on earth or underneath the earth, to open the scroll or look into it.
and it went and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.
singing a new song: "Thou deservest to take the scroll and open its seals, for thou wast slain and by shedding thy blood hast ransomed for God men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation;
So I looked, and there was a white horse, its rider holding a bow; he was given a crown, and away he rode conquering and to conquer.
And away went another red horse; its rider was allowed to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other; he was given a huge sword.
And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living Creature calling, "Come." So I looked and there was a black horse; its rider held a pair of scales in his hand,
So I looked, and there was a livid horse; its rider's name was Death, and Hades followed him. They were given power over the fourth part of the earth, to kill men with sword and famine and plague and by the wild beasts of the earth.
But they were each given a white robe, and told to remain quiet for a little longer, until their number was completed by their fellow-servants and their brothers who were to be killed like themselves.
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