Study Desk

For indeed because of the time you are due to be teachers, yet you need to have someone to teach you again the rudiments of the beginning of the Words of God, and you came to be having need of milk, and not of solidfood;

for everyone partaking of milk is without experience in the Word of Righteousness, for he is an infant.

But solid food is for those full grown, having exercised the faculties through habit, for distinction of both good and bad.

For it is impossible for those once having been enlightened, and having tasted of the heavenly gift, and becoming sharers of the Holy Spirit,

and having fallen away, it is impossible for them again to renew to repentance, crucifying again for themselves the Son of God, and putting Him to open shame.

(For the earth drinking in the rain often coming upon it, and producing vegetation suitable for those for whom it is also worked, receives blessing from God;

"but bearing thorns and thistles," it is deemed unfit and near a curse, of which the end is for burning.) Gen. 3:17, 18

For God is not unjust, to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed to His name, ministering to the saints, and now are ministering.

For God having made promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater to swear by, "He swore by Himself,"

For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath to make things sure is to them the end of all gainsaying.

that through two unchangeable things, in which it was not possible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, those having fled to lay hold on the hope set before us ,

where Jesus entered as forerunner for us, having become a High Priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.

For this "Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God," the one meeting Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, "and blessing him;"

For he was yet in his father's loins when Melchizedek met him.

Truly, then, if perfection was through the Levitical priestly office (for the people had been given Law under it), why yet was there need for another priest to arise according to the order of Melchizedek and not to be called according to theorder of Aaron?

For the priestly office having been changed, of necessity a change of law also occurs.

For the One of whom these things are said has partaken of another tribe, from which no one has given devotion at the altar.

For it is clear that our Lord has risen out of Judah, as to which tribe Moses spoke nothing concerning priesthood.

For it is testified, "You are a priest to the age according to the order of Melchizedek." Psa. 110:4

For, indeed, an annulment of the preceding command comes about because of its weakness and unprofitableness.