Richard Francis Weymouth

“ I will not be afraid: what can man do to me?"
013:007 Remember your former leaders—it was they who brought you God's Message. Bear in mind how they ended their lives, and imitate their faith.
013:008 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and to-day—yes, and to the ages to come.
013:009 Do not be drawn aside by all sorts of strange teaching; for it is well to have the heart made stedfast through God's grace, and not by special kinds of food, from which those who scrupulously attend to them have derived no benefit. ”

“ But solid food is for adults—
that is, for those who through constant practice have
their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish
good from evil.
006:001 Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ,
let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually
re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works
and of faith in God,
006:002 or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement. ”

“ Persistently strive for peace with all men, and for that growth in holiness apart from which no one will see the Lord.
012:015 Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled ”

“ I have this day become Thy Father;" and again, "I will be a Father to Him, and He shall be My Son"?
001:006 But speaking of the time when He once more brings His Firstborn
into the world, He says, "And let all God's angels worship Him."
001:007 Moreover of the angels He says, "He changes His angels into winds,
and His ministering servants into a flame of fire."
001:008 But of His Son, He says, "Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and for ever, and the sceptre of Thy Kingdom is a sceptre
of absolute justice.
001:009 Thou hast loved righteousness and hated lawlessness ”

“ But I cannot now
speak about all these in detail.
009:006 These arrangements having long been completed, the priests,
when conducting the divine services, continually enter
the outer tent.
009:007 But into the second, the High Priest goes only on one day of the year, and goes alone, taking with him blood, which he offers on his own behalf and on account of the sins which the people have ignorantly committed.
009:008 And the lesson which the Holy Spirit teaches is this—
that the way into the true Holy place is not yet open so long
as the outer tent still remains in existence. ”

“ He has made the first one obsolete; but whatever is decaying and showing signs of old age is not far from disappearing altogether.
009:001 Now even the first Covenant had regulations for divine worship, and had also its sanctuary—a sanctuary belonging to this world.
009:002 For a sacred tent was constructed—the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place.
009:003 And behind the second veil was a sacred tent called the Holy of holies. ”

“ Him the source and giver of eternal salvation.
005:010 For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever,
belonging to the order of Melchizedek.
005:011 Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension.
005:012 For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food. ”

“ He does away with the first in order to establish the second.
010:010 It is through that divine will that we have been set free
from sin, through the offering of Jesus Christ as our sacrifice
once for all.
010:011 And while every priest stands ministering, day after day,
and constantly offering the same sacrifices—though such can
never rid us of our sins ”

“ For that would be of no advantage to you.
013:018 Keep on praying for us; for we are sure that we have clear
consciences, and we desire to live nobly in every respect.
013:019 I specially urge this upon you in order that I may be the more
speedily restored to you.
013:020 Now may God who gives peace, and brought Jesus, our Lord,
up again from among the dead—even Him who, by virtue
of the blood of the eternal Covenant, is the great Shepherd
of the sheep ”

“ They had not received the promised blessings, but had seen them from a distance and had greeted them, and had acknowledged themselves to be foreigners and strangers here on earth;
011:014 for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are
seeking elsewhere a country of their own. ”