Jesus

For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion.

For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee.

And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me.

Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil:

For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

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.

For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted.

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly vocation consider the apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus:

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

For this man was counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, by so much as he that hath built the house hath greater honour than the house.

For every house is built by some man: but he that created all things is God.

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,

Where your fathers tempted me, proved and saw my works,

Forty years: for which cause I was offended with this generation, and I said: They always err in heart. And they have not known my ways.

As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest.

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 with whom was he offended forty years? Was it not with them that sinned, whose carcasses were overthrown in the desert?

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 we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished.

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