While of the angels he said, He makes his angels into winds, His ministering servants into flames of fire.

To which of the angels has he ever said, Sit at my right hand, Till I make thy foes a footstool for thy feet?

For it befitted him, for whom and through whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

And so it was necessary that he should in all points be made like his brothers, so that he might become a compassionate and faithful high priest, in all that relates to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Concerning him I have much to say, and much that is hard to make clear to you, because you have grown dull of hearing.

For when God make the promise to Abraham, since he could swear by none greater, he swore by himself, saying.

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices; whence it follows that this High Priest also must have some offering to make.

Now were he on earth, he would not even be a priest, since there are here those who present the gifts according to the Law??5 those priests who serve a mere outline and shadow of the heavenly reality, just as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to build the Tabernacle. "See", he says, "that you make everything on the pattern showed you on the mountain."

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

"This is the covenant I will make with them After those days," says the Lord. "I will set my laws upon their hearts, And I will inscribe them on their minds."

For he continually looked for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a Fatherland.

make straight path for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

whose voice then shook the earth, but now he has promised, saying, Once again, once for all, I make not only earth, but heaven also to tremble.