k ch. 4. 15, 16. & 5. 2. & 7.25. a Rom. 1. 7. 1 Cor. 1. 2. Eph. 4. 1. Phil. 3. 14. 2 Thess. 1. 11. 2 Tim. 1. 9. 2 Pet. 1. 10. Rom.15.8. & 4. 14. & 5. ch. 2. 17. 5.& 6. 20. c Num. 12.7. d Zech. 6.12. Matt. 16. 18. Eph. 2.10. & 3.9. ch. 1. 2. f ver. 2. Ex.14.31. Num. 12. 7. h Deut. 18. x1 Cor.3.16. 2 Cor. 6. 18. & 6. 19. Eph. 2. 21, 22. 1 Tim. 3. 15. 1 Pet. 2. 5. 1 ver. 14. a 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; f 15 And deliver them who sthrough fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. k 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. CHAPTER III. 1 Christ is more worthy than Moses, 7 therefore WHEREFORE, holy brethren, worthy than Moses. 7 Wherefore (as "the Holy Ghost saith, "To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: ANNO DOMINI 64. m2 8am. 23. 2. Acts 1. 16. n ver. 15. 9 When your fathers tempted me, P. 95.7. proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. they shall 11 So I sware in my wrath, 2 They Gr, I shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. enter. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of ver. 6. our confidence stedfast unto the end; 15 While it is said, "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. 16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. P ver. 7. a Num. 14. 2, 4, 11, 24, Deut. 1. 84, 86, 88. 17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, "whose carcases fellNum. 14. in the wilderness? 22, 29, &c. & 26. 05. Ps. 106. 20. Jude 5. 18 And to whom sware he that 1 Cor. 10. 5. they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. CHAPTER IV. partakers of the heavenly 1 The rest of Christians is attained by faith. 12 calling, consider b the Apostle and The power of God's word. 14 By our high ET us therefore fear, lest, a Who was faithful to him that I promise being left us of entering appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. ■ Num. 14. t ch. 4. 6. ch. 12. 15. 3 Gr, the hearing. word of 4 Or, because they were not united by faith to. b ch. 3. 14. • Ps. 95. 11. ch. 3. 11. d Gen. 2. 2. Ex. 20. 11. & 31. 17. The authority and honour ANNO DOMINI 61. e ch. 3. 19. 2 Or, the gospel was first preached. f Ps. 95. 7. ch. 3. 7. 8 That is, Joshua. 4 Or, keeping of a sabbath. g ch. 3.12, 18, 19. 6 Or, disobedience. b Is. 49. 2. Jer. 23. 29. 2 Cor.10.4.5. 1 Pet. 1. 23. Prov. 5. 4. k Eph. 6. 17. Rev. 1. 16. & 2. 16. 11 Cor. 14. 24, 25. m Ps. 33.13, 14. & 90. 8. & 189. 11, 12. a Job 26. 6. & 34. 21. Prov. 15.11. och. 3. 1. p ch. 7. 26. & 9. 12, 24. HEBREWS, V. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, Pthat is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, ach. 10. 23. let us hold fast our profession. r Is. 53. 3. ch. 2. 18. ■ Luke 22. 28. t2 Cor.5.21. ch. 7. 26. 1 Pet. 2. 22. 1 John 3. 5. q 15 For 'we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, * yet without sin. 16 "Let us therefore come boldly u Eph. 2. 18. unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. & 3. 12. ch. 10. 19, 21, 22. of Christ's priesthood. unto himself, but he that is called of God, as h was Aaron. k 5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee. 6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had moffered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard 2 p in that he feared; 8 4 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; 8 ANNO DOMINI 64. 9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salva- Mark 14.33. tion unto all them that obey him; Luke 22.43. John 12.27. q ch. 8. 6. r Phil. 2.8. 8 ch. 2. 10. & 11. 40. t ver. 6. 10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom " we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, ch. 6. 20. seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk 3 is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. TH CHAPTER VI. leaving He exhorteth not to fall back from the faith, 11 but to be stedfast, 12 diligent, and patient to wait upon God, 13 because God is most sure in his promise. THEREFORE • the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, с 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, eternal judgment. e and of and of 32. Rom. 2. 16. Acts 2.25. 3 And this will we do, s if God permit. 4 For it is impossible for those I who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word Cor. 4. 19. h Matt. 12. 31, 32. Pet. 2. 20, & 32. Eph. 2. 8. 1 Gal. 3.2, 5. ch. 2. 4. 6 If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing ch. 10. 29. they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. 2 Or, for. • Ps. 65. 10. p Is. 5. 6. a Prov. 14. 31. Matt. 10. 42. & 25. 40. John 13. 20. Rom. 3. 4. 2 Thess. 1. 6,7. 1 Thess. 1. 3. t Rom. 15. 25. 2 Cor. 8. 4. & 9. 1, 12. 2 Tim. 1. 18. u ch. 3. 6,14. x Col. 2. 2. 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them 2 by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: 8 P But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. 10 9 For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that "every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith y ch. 10. 36. and patience inherit the promises. 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. z Gen. 22. 16, 17. Ps. 105. 9. Luke 1.73. 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. 16 For men verily swear by the Ex. 22.11. greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife. 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his Gr. inter- counsel, confirmed it by an oath: b ch. 11. 9. 3 Rom. 11. 29. posed himself by an oath. d ch. 12. 1. e Lev. 16.15. ch. 9. 7. fch. 4. 14. & 8.1.& 9.24. g ch. 3. 1. & 5. 6, 10. & 7.17. 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. CHAPTER VII. 1 Christ Jesus is a priest after the order of Melchisedec, 11 and so, far more excellent than the priests of Aaron's order. Christ a priest after the FOR this Melchisedec, king of ANNO DOMINI 64. Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and Gen. 14.18, blessed him; 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace; 3 Without father, without mother, 2 without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually. &c. 2 Gr. pedigree. without 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the bGen.14.20. patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils. 21, 26. 5 And verily they that are of Num. 18. the sons of Levi, who receive the office of the priesthood, have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though they come out of the loins of Abraham : 8 Or, pedigree. 6 But he whose 3 descent is not counted from them received tithes of Abraham, and blessed him that Gen. 14.19. had the promises. 7 And without all contradiction the less is blessed of the better. e Rom. 4.13. Gal. 3. 16. 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, f of whom it is witnessed that he fch. 5. 6. liveth. 9 And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham. 10 For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. & 6. 20. 8 Gal. 2. 21. ver. 18, 19. 11 If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for ch. 8.7. under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron? 12 For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law. 13 For he of whom these things are spoken pertaineth to another tribe, of which no man gave attendance at the altar. 14 For it is evident that hour Lord sprang out of Juda; of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning priesthood. 15 And it is yet far more evident: for that after the similitude of Melchisedec there ariseth another priest, 16 Who is made, not after the law I. 11. 1. Luke 3. 33. Rev. 5. 5. Matt. 1. 8. Rom. 1. 8. Gal. 2. 16. m ch. 6. 18. a Rom. 5. 2. & 3. 12. ch. 4. 16. & 10. 19. 3 Or, without swearing • Ps. 110. 4. p ch. 8. 6. & 9. 15. & 12. 24. 20 And inasmuch as not without an oath he was made priest: 21 (For those priests were made 3 without an oath; but this with an oath by him that said unto him, "The Lord sware and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec :) 22 By so much P was Jesus made a surety of a better testament. 23 And they truly were many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason of death: 24 But this man, because he con4 Or, which tinueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. passeth not from one to another. 6 Or, evermore. q Rom. 8.34. 1 Tim. 2. 5. ch. 9. 24. 1 John 2. 1. r ch. 4. 15. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. r 26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, unEph. 1.20. defiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; & 4. 10. ch. 8. 1. 27 Who needeth not daily, as those Lev. 9.7. high priests, to offer up sacrifice, 'first for his own sins, "and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered himself. & 16. 6, 11. u Lev. 16.15. x Rom.6.10. ch. 9. 12, 28. & 10. 12. up 28 For the law maketh men high 7 ch. 5. 1,2. priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore. z ch. 2. 10. & 5. 9. 6 Gr. perfected. ANNO DOMINI 64. wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that Eph. 5. 2. 2 there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: 5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount. ch. 9. 14. 2 Or, they are priests. f Col. 2. 17. ch. 9. 23. & 10.1. Ex. 25.40. & 26. 30. 27.8. Num. 8. 4. Acts 7. 44. h 2 Cor. 3. 6, 8, 9. ch. 7. 22. 6 But now hhath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was esta-3 or, blished upon better promises. testament. 7 For if that first covenant had ch.7.11,18. been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. k 32, 33, 34. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith Jer. 31. 31, the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah : 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that 1 ch. 10. 16. I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 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. Or, upon. m Zech. 8. 8. John 6. 45. 1 John 2.27. n Is. 54. 13. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and Rom.11.27. their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 P In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. CHAPTER IX. ch. P2 Cor. 5.17. 6 Or, ceremonies. a Ex. 25. 8. • Ex. 26. 35. & 40. 4. & Ex. 25. 81. • Ex. 25. 23, 80. service, and a worldly sanctuary. 2 b For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the Lev.24.5,6. |