I appeal to you on behalf of my spiritual son born while I was in prison. It is Onesimus!

Perhaps this was why you and he were parted for a while, that you might get him back for good,

While he says of angels, 'Who makes his angels into winds, his servants into flames of fire,'

while God corroborated their testimony with signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, distributing the holy Spirit as it pleased him.

For a little while thou hast put him lower than the angels, crowning him with glory and honour,

what we do see is Jesus who was put lower than the angels for a little while to suffer death, and who has been crowned with glory and honour that by God's grace he might taste death for everyone.

he is faithful to Him who appointed him. For while Moses also was faithful in every department of God's house,

Besides, while Moses was faithful in every department of God's house as an attendant ??by way of witness to the coming revelation ??6 Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

Again, it is mortal men in the one case who receive tithes, while in the other it is one of whom the witness is that 'he lives.'

Also, while they became priests in large numbers, since death prevents them from continuing to serve,

Now, while the copies of the heavenly things had to be cleansed with sacrifices like these, the heavenly things themselves required nobler sacrifices.

Again, while every priest stands daily at his service, offering the same sacrifices repeatedly, sacrifices which never can take sins away ??12 He offered a single sacrifice for sins and then seated himself for all time at the right hand of God,

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.

then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.

For while every kind of beast and bird, of creeping animals and creatures marine, is tameable and has been tamed by mankind,

And as you call upon a Father who judges everyone impartially by what he has done, be reverent in your conduct while you sojourn here below;

(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).

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

while the angels who abandoned their own domain, instead of preserving their proper rank, are reserved by him within the nether gloom, in chains eternal, for the doom of the great Day ??7 just as Sodom and Gomorra and the adjacent cities, which similarly glutted themselves with vice and sensual perversity, are exhibited as a warning of the everlasting fire they are sentenced to suffer.

also, they are seven kings, of whom five have fallen, one is living, and the other has not arrived yet ??and when he does arrive, he can only stay a little while.

while the rest were killed by the sword of him who is seated on the horse, by the sword that issues from his lips. And all the birds were glutted with their flesh.

flinging him into the abyss and shutting and sealing it on the top of him, to prevent him seducing the nations again until the thousand years were completed ??after which he has to be released for a little while.