The Perfect High Priest 1For euery hye priest taken from among men, is ordeined for men, in things parteynyng to God, to offer gyftes & sacrifices for sinne:
2Which can sufficiently haue compassion on the ignoraunt, & on them that erre out of the waye, forasmuche as he hym selfe also is compassed with infirmitie.
3And for ye same
5Euen so, Christ also glorified not hym selfe to be made ye hye priest: but he that sayde vnto hym, thou art my sonne, to day haue I begotten thee
6As he saith also in another place: thou art a priest for euer, after the order of Melchisedech.
7Which in the dayes of his fleshe, when he had offered vp prayers and supplications with strong crying and teares, vnto hym that was able to saue hym from death, and was hearde in that which he feared:
8Though he were the sonne, yet learned he obediece, by these thinges which he suffred:
9And being perfect, was made the aucthour of eternall saluation vnto al them that obey hym:
10And is called of God an hye priest after the order of Melchisedech. Milk and Solid Food 11Of whom we haue many thynges to say, and harde to be vttered, seing ye are dull of hearyng.
12For when as concernyng the tyme, ye ought to be teachers, yet haue ye nede againe that we teache you the first principles of the begynnyng of the worde of God, and are become such as haue nede of mylke, and not of strong meate.
13For euery one that vseth mylke, is vnexpert of the worde of righteousnes, for he is a babe.
14But strong meate belongeth to them that are perfecte, euen those whiche by reason of vse, haue their wittes exercised to discerne both good and euyll. |