For to what angel did God ever say, 'Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father'? Or again, 'I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to me'?

And further, when introducing the Firstborn into the world, he says, 'Let all God's angels worship him.'

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

he says of the Son, 'God is thy throne for ever and ever, thy royal sceptre is the sceptre of equity:

To what angel did he ever say, 'Sit at my right hand, till I make your enemies a footstool for your feet'?

Since the children then share blood and flesh, he himself participated in their nature, so that by dying he might crush him who wields the power of death (that is to say, the devil)

Therefore, as the holy Spirit says, To-day, when you hear his voice,

For he says this somewhere about the seventh day: And God rested from all his works on the seventh day.

he again fixes a day; To-day ??as he says in 'David' after so long an interval, and as has been already quoted ??To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Just as elsewhere he says, Thou art a priest for ever, with the rank of Melchizedek.

On this point I have a great deal to say, which it is hard to make intelligible to you. For you have grown dull of hearing.

Though I say this, beloved, I feel sure you will take the better course that means salvation.

In fact, we might almost say that even Levi the receiver of tithes paid tithes through Abraham;

Whereas God does find fault with the people of that covenant, when he says: The day is coming, saith the Lord, when I will conclude a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be on the lines of the covenant I made with their fathers,

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),

In fact, one might almost say that by Law everything is cleansed with blood. No blood shed, no remission of sins!

Hence, on entering the world he says, Thou hast no desire for sacrifice or offering; it is a body thou hast prepared for me ??6 in holocausts and sin-offerings thou takest no delight.

And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets ??33 men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions,

So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?