And against whom was God<n id="1" /> provoked for forty years? Was it not those who sinned, <i>whose dead bodies fell in the wildernessi>?<n id="2" />

And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

<p class="bodytext">Endure your suffering<n id="1" /> as discipline;<n id="2" /> God is treating you as sons. For what son is there that a father does not discipline?

So we can say with confidence, &#8220;<i><b>The Lord is my helperb>, <b>andb>i><n id="1" /> <i><b>I will not be afraidb>. <b>What can man do to me?b>i>&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">But to which of the angels<n id="1" /> has he ever said, &#8220;<b><i>Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feeti>b>&#8221;?<n id="2" />

Instead someone testified somewhere:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8220;<b><i>What is man that you think of himi>b><n id="1" /> <b><i>or the son of man that you care for him?i>b>p>

<p class="bodytext">And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets.

<t /><p class="bodytext">For to which of the angels did God<n id="1" /> ever say, &#8220;<b><i>You are my son! Today I have fathered youi>b>&#8221;?<n id="2" /> And in another place<n id="3" /> he says,<n id="4" /> &#8220;<b><i>I will be his father and he will be my soni>b>.&#8221;<n id="5" />

For though you should in fact be teachers by this time,<n id="1" /> you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God&#8217;s utterances.<n id="2" /> You have gone back to needing<n id="3" /> milk, not<n id="4" /> solid food.

<t /><p class="bodytext">So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood &#8211; for on that basis<n id="1" /> the people received the law &#8211; what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron&#8217;s order?