BRETHREN, if the message declared by angels was valid and every
transgression or disobedience received a just retribution, 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, while God
also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by
gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his own will. For it
was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we
are speaking. It has been testified somewhere, "What is man that
thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that thou carest for him?
Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou
hast crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in
subjection under his feet." Now in putting everything in subjection to
him, he left nothing outside his control. As it is, we do not yet see
everything in subjection to him. 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. 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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