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Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people.

Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house.

And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be said:

But Christ, as the Son in his own house: which house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and glory of hope unto the end.

Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith: To-day if you shall hear his voice,

For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

While it is said: To day, if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in that provocation.

And to whom did he swear, that they should not enter into his rest: but to them that were incredulous?

Let us fear therefore lest, the promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should be thought to be wanting.

For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Again he limiteth a certain day, saying in David; To day, after so long a time as it is above said: To day if you shall hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

Neither is there any creature invisible in his sight: but all things are naked and open to his eyes, to whom our speech is.

Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work and the love which you have shewn in his name, you who have ministered and do minister to the saints.

Wherein God, meaning more abundantly to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed an oath:

For he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchisedech met him.

Who needeth not daily (as the other priests) to offer sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, in offering himself.

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.

But into the second, the high priest alone, once a year: not without blood, which he offereth for his own and the people’s ignorance: