God’s Supreme Revelation

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets,

again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “Today,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “Today, if you will hear His voice, Do not harden your hearts.”

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Spiritual Immaturity

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

It was symbolic for the present time in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make him who performed the service perfect in regard to the conscience—

concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool.

And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and Samuel and the prophets: