but only a certain fearful expectation of judgment and a fury ¹  of fire that will consume God’s enemies. ² 

Thus we must make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.

For it is indeed fitting for us to have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separate from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

So if perfection had in fact been possible through the Levitical priesthood – for on that basis ¹  the people received the law – what further need would there have been for another priest to arise, said to be in the order of Melchizedek and not in Aaron’s order?