1 For this reason, holy brothers, marked out to have a part in heaven, give thought to Jesus the representative and high priest of our faith;2 Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.3 And it was right for this man to have more honour than Moses, even as the builder of a house has more honour than the house.4 For every house has a builder; but the builder of all things is God.5 And Moses certainly kept faith as a servant, in all his house, and as a witness of those things which were to be said later;6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,8 Be not hard of heart, as when you made me angry, on the day of testing in the waste land,9 When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.10 So that I was angry with this generation, and I said, Their hearts are in error at all times, and they have no knowledge of my ways;11 And being angry I made an oath, saying, They may not come into my rest.12 My brothers, take care that there is not by chance in any one of you an evil heart without belief, turning away from the living God:13 But give comfort to one another every day as long as it is still Today; so that no one among you may be made hard by the deceit of sin:14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;15 As it is said, Today if you will let his voice come to your ears, be not hard of heart, as when you made him angry.16 Who made him angry when his voice came to them? was it not all those who came out of Egypt with Moses?17 And with whom was he angry for forty years? was it not with those who did evil, who came to their deaths in the waste land?18 And to whom did he make an oath that they might not come into his rest? was it not to those who went against his orders?19 So we see that they were not able to go in because they had no belief.

1 Unde, fratres sancti, vocationis clestis participes, considerate Apostolum, et pontificem confessionis nostr Jesum : 2 qui fidelis est ei, qui fecit illum, sicut et Moyses in omni domo ejus. 3 Amplioris enim glori iste pr Moyse dignus est habitus, quanto ampliorem honorem habet domus, qui fabricavit illam. 4 Omnis namque domus fabricatur ab aliquo : qui autem omnia creavit, Deus est. 5 Et Moyses quidem fidelis erat in tota domo ejus tamquam famulus, in testimonium eorum, qu dicenda erant : 6 Christus vero tamquam filius in domo sua : qu domus sumus nos, si fiduciam, et gloriam spei usque ad finem, firmam retineamus.7 Quapropter sicut dicit Spiritus Sanctus : Hodie si vocem ejus audieritis, 8 nolite obdurare corda vestra, sicut in exacerbatione secundum diem tentationis in deserto, 9 ubi tentaverunt me patres vestri : probaverunt, et viderunt opera mea 10 quadraginta annis : propter quod infensus fui generationi huic, et dixi : Semper errant corde. Ipsi autem non cognoverunt vias meas, 11 sicut juravi in ira mea : Si introibunt in requiem meam. 12 Videte fratres, ne forte sit in aliquo vestrum cor malum incredulitatis, discedendi a Deo vivo : 13 sed adhortamini vosmetipsos per singulos dies, donec hodie cognominatur, ut non obduretur quis ex vobis fallacia peccati. 14 Participes enim Christi effecti sumus, si tamen initium substanti ejus usque ad finem firmum retineamus. 15 Dum dicitur : Hodie si vocem ejus audieritis, nolite obdurare corda vestra, quemadmodum in illa exacerbatione. 16 Quidam enim audientes exacerbaverunt : sed non universi qui profecti sunt ex gypto per Moysen. 17 Quibus autem infensus est quadraginta annis ? nonne illis qui peccaverunt, quorum cadavera prostrata sunt in deserto ? 18 Quibus autem juravit non introire in requiem ipsius, nisi illis qui increduli fuerunt ? 19 Et videmus, quia non potuerunt introire propter incredulitatem.