"and he shall be to me a "Son?"

6 and again, when he introduceth the first-begotten to the earth, he saith, " And let all Ps. xcvi. 7"the angels of God worship " him :"

7 and, as to the angels, he saith, "Who maketh the winds Ib. civ. 4. "his angels, and the flaming "fire his ministers :"

8 but, to the Son, he saith,

Thy throne, O God, is for Ib. xlv. 6, 7"ever:" and, "The sceptre of

thy kingdom is the sceptre "of rectitude:

9 "Thou lovedst justice, and "hatedst iniquity; therefore "God, even thy God, hath "anointed thee, with the oil "of gladness, above thy fel"lows:"

W THEREFORE, it behoves us to give the more earnest attention to the things which we have heard, lest we should ever depart from them: 2 for, if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just retribution;

3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which, having been first spoken by the Lord, hath been confirmed to us by those who heard him;

4 God bearing witness with them, by signs, and wonders, and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to his will?

5 For, he hath not subjected

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"Thou madest him a little Philipp. ii. "lower than the angels; thou "hast crowned him with glory "and honour: thou hast put "all things in subjection under "his feet :"

8 for, in subjecting to him all things, he left nothing unsubjected to him.

9 But, as yet we see not all things subjected to him; we only see Jesus, who was made a little lower than angels by the suffering of death, (that he might taste of death, apart Matt. xxvil. from God, for every one,) Mark, xvii.32. crowned with glory and honour.

10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bring ing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings:

11 for, both he who sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all from one for which cause, he is not ashamed to call them, brethren;

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12 saying, "I will declare thy

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name to my brethren; in the "midst of the congregation I Ps. xxii. 22. "will sing praise to thee:"

2 Sam. xxii. 3.

Is. viii. 18.

Philipp. ii. 7.

13 and again, "I will put my "trust in him:" and again, "Behold, I and the children " which God hath given me." 14 Since, then, those children partook of flesh and blood, he himself also, in like manner, partook of the same; that, through death, he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might rescue those, who, through fear of death, have, through all their life, been subject to bondage.

16 For, indeed, he took not on him the form of angels; but he took on him that of the seed of Abraham :

17 from whence we learn, Rom. xv. 8 that it behoved him to be made, in all things, like his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people:

18 for, inasmuch as he himself was tried, and suffered, he is able to succour those that are tried.

it is said, "Moses was faith- Num.x; Iful in his house :"

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3 for, he is accounted worthy of so much more glory than Moses, as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house itself: 4 for, every house is builded by some one, but he who built John, 1. 1. all things is God.

5 And Moses, indeed, was faithful in all His house, as His servant, to testify of the things which were to be afterwards spoken;

6 but, Christ was such as a son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of our hope.

7 Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit saith), "To-day, if ye "will hear his voice, harden "not your hearts, as in the "provocation, in the day of "trial in the wilderness; 8 "when your fathers tried "and proved me, and saw my "works forty years:

9" therefore I was grieved "with that generation, and "said, They always err in "heart, and have not known

12 but, exhort ye one another every day, while it is called to-day; that none of you may be hardened, through the deceitfulness of sin:

13 for, we become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast our ground in him, from the beginning to the end.

14 When it is said, "To-day, "if ye will hear his voice, "harden not your hearts, as "in the provocation;"

15 who then were they, who, when they had heard, did provoke? not all that went out from Egypt by Moses:

16 and with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that sinned, m. xiv. 29. "whose carcasses fell in the "wilderness?"

17 and to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

18 and thus we see, that they could not enter in, because of their unbelief.

fited them not, since they joined not in faith with those who hearkened to it: but we, who have believed, do enter into his rest.

3 And whereas he said, "As

"I sware in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest," (although his works were finished at the foundation of the world:

4 for he spake thus in a certain place of the seventh day, "And God rested the seventh Gen. ii. 2.

day from all his works :"

5 yet in this place he saith again, "That they shall not "enter into my rest:")

6 it therefore remaineth, that some entered into it; but, that they to whom it was first preached entered not in, through their unbelief.

7 Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, "To

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day," (that is, after so long a time as he had before said,)" To-day if ye will hear "his voice, harden not your "hearts:"

8 but, if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken of another day, after those things:

9 there still remaineth, therefore, a sabbath-rest for the people of God:

10 for, he who entereth into His rest, doth himself also cease from his works, as God ceased from His.

11 Let us, therefore, strive to enter into that rest; that no one may fall, after the same example of unbelief:

12 for, the Word of God is living, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword; piercing even to the separating of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart:

13 neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we are to account.

CHAPTER V.

HAVING, therefore, a great High Priest, who hath entered into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession :

2 for, we have not an high priest that cannot feel for our infirmities; but, one who was tried in all things like us, yet without sin.

3 Let us, therefore, go boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and grace for seasonable help:

4 for, every high priest taken from among men, is ordained, for the sake of men, in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

with the ignorant and erring, Gal- vi. since he himself also is encompassed with infirmity :

6 and, on account of that infirmity, he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to make offerings for sins.

7 And no one assumeth that honour, of himself, but he only who is called to it by God, as Aaron was:

8 and so, Christ glorified not himself in becoming an high priest; but, He who said to him, "Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee:"

9 (and as, in another place, he saith, "Thou art a priest P. c.4 "FOR EVER; according to the "rule of Melchisedec :")

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10 who, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers Matt. xxv and supplications with strong crying and tears to him that was able to save him from death; and having been heard and delivered from his fear; 11 learned obedience by the things which he suffered, though he was a Son;

12 and, when he was perfected, he became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him;

13 (being called by God, an High Priest, according to the rule of Melchisedec :)

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