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hardened by the scductiveness of sin. For we shall be pzxrticipators with Tux Mxssuu, if we steadily hold fast to thc first foundation until per- fect; therefore He said : IF To-DAY You WQULD IJSIEN T0 Hxs vorcz, HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS As IN THAT BIITERNESS. But what heaters tried Him ?··did

not all coming from Egypt through Moses? And by whom was He pro- voked forty years 2—···was it not with the sinners, whose carcases fell in the desert? And to whom did He declare that they should not enter into His rest--if not to the unbelieviug ? From which we perceive that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore be careful, lest by

abandoning a promise to enter into His rest, any one from among you should think of lagging behind. For we are promised as they were; but the messageheard did not profit them, not being united with faith by the

3 heaters. But we, the believers, may enter that rest (although He said : AS [ DECLARED IN MY ANGER, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY REST 2 IO II as though from the exertions of

construction after founding a. universe, where it says about the seventh thus : AND GOD RESIED UPON THE SEVENTH PBMOD FRGM ALL Hts Woaxsl But here again THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY Rest.) As, therefore, some failed to enter it,

and those first promised entered not, through disobedience; Ile again fixed a particular time, To-DAY, saying, after that time, by David—-as I said before To-DAY, ex! YOU WILL HBAR His VOICE, HARDEN N0. YOUR HEARTS. For if ]oshua had given that rest,

He would not after that have spoken of another time. Therefore there still remains a rest for the people of God. For it shall enter into its rest, and rest itself from its labours, as God did from His own. Let us therefore strive to enter into

that rest, so that no one may in the same way be an example, by falling

:2 through disobedience. For the word ofGod is living and energetic,and more Mm 1 Genesis ll. s. cutting than any two-edged sword; and divides even the life and spirit, joints and marrow ; and is critical of desires and thoughts of the heart. And there is no creature hidden before it; but all is naked and bare to His eyes to Whom we have to account. @132 £2zsiul;'s Qrizztlg @$1:z. Having, therefore, a great High

Priest gone into the heavens, jesus the Son of God, let us cling to this confession. For we have not a High Priest unable to sympathize with our weaknesses; but equally tried in all things like ourselves, yet sinless. Let us go, therefore, with freedom to the throne of the Giver,so that we may receive mercy; and we shall und a perfectly supporting gift. For every high priest taken from

among men is set up over men to attend to the things of God, so that he may offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; and be able to sympathize with the ignorant and erring, because he is himself surrounded with weakness: and for that reason he ought to offer for his own sins, as well as for the people. And not any one takes this honour to himself, unless called by God, even as Aaron was. Thus also the Messiah did not Him-

self decree that He should become a High Priest; but, instead, He Who said to Him : You ARE MY Sou. To—nAY I nav}; nncorrmr You} And as He says in another place: You ARE AN EIERNAL PR1Es’r, Accoanmc ro THE onnnx or x6 Mntcm-sauna.! Who in the days of His incarnation, 7 having odered prayers and supplica- tions with strong crying and tears, to Him able to save Him from death, and having been listened to because of His entreaty. although indeed He 8 was a Son, He learnt obedience by what He suffered; and having g been perfected, He became the origin of eternal salvation to all who obey Him——having been publicly proclaimed under God a High Priest of the order of Melchi·sedek; of Whom we have to express much thought and diiiicult to explain, since you have become sluggish to the sounds. For at the time when you ought to be teachers, you have need 1 Psalm ll. 7. ’ Psalm cx. 4. 1236 I0 II I2