God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways,

“Therefore I was angry with this generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they did not know My ways’;

But, beloved, we are convinced of better things concerning you, and things that accompany salvation, though we are speaking in this way.

In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,

The Holy Spirit is signifying this, that the way into the holy place has not yet been disclosed while the outer tabernacle is still standing,

And in the same way he sprinkled both the tabernacle and all the vessels of the ministry with the blood.

by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,