choosing rather to be ill-treated with the people of God than to enjoy sin’s fleeting pleasure.

For otherwise would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers would have been purified once for all and so have ¹  no further consciousness of sin?

For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. So this one too had to have something to offer.

For in fact you shared the sufferings of those in prison, ¹  and you accepted the confiscation of your belongings with joy, because you knew that you certainly ²  had a better and lasting possession.