Letters to the Churches

God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.

For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands.

Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him.

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all.

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:

And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.

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,

Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the desert,

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.