1 - For every chief priest--out of men taken--in behalf of men is set in things <FI>pertaining<Fi> to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins,
2 - able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
3 - and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;
4 - and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:
5 - so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'
6 - as also in another <FI>place<Fi> He saith, `Thou <FI>art<Fi> a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
7 - who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death--with strong crying and tears--having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,
8 - through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,
9 - and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
10 - having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,
11 - concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,
12 - for even owing to be teachers, because of the time, again ye have need that one teach you what <FI>are<Fi> the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and ye have become having need of milk, and not of strong food,
13 - for every one who is partaking of milk <FI>is<Fi> unskilled in the word of righteousness--for he is an infant,
14 - and of perfect men is the strong food, who because of the use are having the senses exercised, unto the discernment both of good and of evil.
