and thus, having had long patience, he got the promise.

but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises.

If indeed then perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, for the people had their law given to them in connexion with it, what need was there still that a different priest should arise according to the order of Melchisedec, and not be named after the order of Aaron?

For if that first was faultless, place had not been sought for a second.

The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one.

having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;

since he had then been obliged often to suffer from the foundation of the world. But now once in the consummation of the ages he has been manifested for the putting away of sin by his sacrifice.

By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him; for before his translation he has the testimony that he had pleased God.

And if they had called to mind that from whence they went out, they had had opportunity to have returned;

By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,

as to whom it had been said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

By faith Moses, when he had become great, refused to be called son of Pharaoh's daughter;

esteeming the reproach of the Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he had respect to the recompense.

Moreover we have had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners, and we reverenced them; shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?

See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven:

Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

But was not in like manner also Rahab the harlot justified on the principle of works, when she had received the messengers and put them forth by another way?

knowing this first, that the scope of no prophecy of scripture is had from its own particular interpretation,

For if God spared not the angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness to be kept for judgment;

but had reproof of his own wickedness the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the folly of the prophet.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.

They went out from among us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have surely remained with us, but that they might be made manifest that none are of us.

And now I beseech thee, lady, not as writing to thee a new commandment, but that which we have had from the beginning, that we should love one another.

I had many things to write to thee, but I will not with ink and pen write to thee;

But I would put you in remembrance, you who once knew all things, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, in the second place destroyed those who had not believed.

And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;

And I wept much because no one had been found worthy to open the book nor to regard it.

And when it opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held;

And I saw another angel ascending from the sunrising, having the seal of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been given to hurt the earth and the sea,

And the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves that they might sound with their trumpets.

and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea which had life died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

and they had hair as women's hair, and their teeth were as of lions,

and they had breastplates as breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to war;

saying to the sixth angel that had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound at the great river Euphrates.

And I took the little book out of the hand of the angel, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth as honey, sweet; and when I had eaten it my belly was made bitter.

And when the dragon saw that he had been cast out into the earth, he persecuted the woman which bore the male child.

and one of his heads was as slain to death, and his wound of death had been healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast.

and all that dwell on the earth shall do it homage, every one whose name had not been written from the founding of the world in the book of life of the slain Lamb.

And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon;

and that no one should be able to buy or sell save he that had the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of its name.

And another angel came out of the altar, having power over fire, and called with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Send thy sharp sickle, and gather the bunches of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripened.

And I saw as a glass sea, mingled with fire, and those that had gained the victory over the beast, and over its image, and over the number of its name, standing upon the glass sea, having harps of God.

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in pure bright linen, and girded about the breasts with golden girdles.

And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and there came an evil and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped its image.

And the men were burnt with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and did not repent to give him glory.

And one of the seven angels, which had the seven bowls, came and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the sentence of the great harlot who sits upon the many waters;

And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the unclean things of her fornication;

The merchants of these things, who had been enriched through her, shall stand afar off through fear of her torment, weeping and grieving,

saying, Woe, woe, the great city, which was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and had ornaments of gold and precious stones and pearls!

and cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and grieving, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, in which all that had ships in the sea were enriched through her costliness! for in one hour she has been made desolate.

And I saw thrones; and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them; and the souls of those beheaded on account of the testimony of Jesus, and on account of the word of God; and those who had not done homage to the beast nor to his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and hand; and they lived and reigned with the Christ a thousand years:

the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years had been completed. This is the first resurrection.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea exists no more.

And there came one of the seven angels which had had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues, and spoke with me, saying, Come here, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

And he that spoke with me had a golden reed as a measure, that he might measure the city, and its gates, and its wall.