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but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world.
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Of the angels he says, “Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire.”
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Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to serve, for the sake of those who are to obtain salvation?
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Warning to Pay Attention
Therefore we must pay the closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.
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how shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard him,
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But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.
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For it was fitting that he, for whom and by whom all things exist, in bringing many sons to glory, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through suffering.
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For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified have all one origin. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
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Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same nature, that through death he might destroy him who has the power of death, that is, the devil,
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and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong bondage.
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For because he himself has suffered and been tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
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Moses a Servant, Christ a Son
Therefore, holy brethren, who share in a heavenly call, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession.
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He was faithful to him who appointed him, just as Moses also was faithful in God’s house.
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Warning against Unbelief
Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, when you hear his voice,
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do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,
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Therefore I was provoked with that generation, and said, ‘They always go astray in their hearts; they have not known my ways.’
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Take care, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
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while it is said, “Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”
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Who were they that heard and yet were rebellious? Was it not all those who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses?
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And with whom was he provoked forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
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And to whom did he swear that they should never enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
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For good news came to us just as to them; but the message which they heard did not benefit them, because it did not meet with faith in the hearers.
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For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall never enter my rest,’” although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
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Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,
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again he sets a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted, “Today, when you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.”
