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for he who was there mention'd was of another tribe, none of whom ever gave attendance at the altar.

for it is said, "thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

wherefore the preceeding law is abolished for its being weak and useless.

for the law made no man perfect, but this was effected by introducing a better hope, which brings us nearer to the divine presence.

by him that said to him, "the Lord has swore, and will not repent, thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec."

so that he has an uninterrupted power to save those, that come to God by him, because he ever lives to make intercession for them.

as those high priests of the law were, to offer up daily sacrifices, first for his own sins, and then for those of the people: having done this once for all, by offering up himself.

for the law appointed frail mortals to be high priests, but the oracle pronounc'd with an oath, which was since the law, established the son, who is crown'd with immortal perfections.

for if the first alliance had been without defect, there could have been no occasion for the second.

nor for that reproach, which was made to our fathers, where 'tis said, "behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new alliance with the house of Israel, and with the house of Juda:

not according to the alliance that I made with their fathers, when I took them by the hand, to lead them out of the land of Egypt; for they have not kept my alliance, wherefore I have rejected them, saith the Lord.

they shall no longer instruct every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sins and their trangressions will I remember no more."

for the disposition of the tabernacle was such, that in the first part named the sanctuary, were placed the candlestick, the table, and the shew-bread;

the high priest only enter'd, and that but once every year, when he carried the blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people.

nor with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood he enter'd once for all into the holy of holys, after having obtained for us an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and of bulls, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkled on the unclean, can cleanse them from external impurities;

and for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that, the transgressions that were unexpiated by the first testament, being expiated by his death, they who are called might receive the eternal inheritance, which was promised.

For where a testament is, there the death of the testator is necessarily pre-suppos'd.

for when every precept of the law had been represented by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, wool of a scarlet dye, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book of the law and all the people,