Chapter 1

  In many parts, and many ways, God of old having spoken to the fathers in the prophets,  

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  in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;  

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  who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,  

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  having become so much better than the messengers, as he did inherit a more excellent name than they.  

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  For to which of the messengers said He ever, 'My Son thou art -- I to-day have begotten thee?' and again, 'I will be to him for a father, and he shall be to Me for a son?'  

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  and when again He may bring in the first-born to the world, He saith, 'And let them bow before him -- all messengers of God;'  

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  and unto the messengers, indeed, He saith, 'Who is making His messengers spirits, and His ministers a flame of fire;'  

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  and unto the Son: 'Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age; a scepter of righteousness [is] the scepter of thy reign;  

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  thou didst love righteousness, and didst hate lawlessness; because of this did He anoint thee -- God, thy God -- with oil of gladness above thy partners;'  

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  and, 'Thou, at the beginning, Lord, the earth didst found, and a work of thy hands are the heavens;  

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  these shall perish, and Thou dost remain, and all, as a garment, shall become old,  

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  and as a mantle Thou shall roll them together, and they shall be changed, and Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail.'  

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  And unto which of the messengers said He ever, 'Sit at My right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?'  

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  are they not all spirits of service -- for ministration being sent forth because of those about to inherit salvation?  

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