Chapter 1

  God having spoken in many parts and in many ways formerly to the fathers in the prophets,  

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  at the end of these days has spoken to us in [the person of the] Son, whom he has established heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;  

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  who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,  

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  taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.  

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  For to which of the angels said he ever, Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee? and again, I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son?  

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  and again, when he brings in the firstborn into the habitable world, he says, And let all God's angels worship him.  

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  And as to the angels he says, Who makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire;  

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  but as to the Son, Thy throne, O God, [is] to the age of the age, and a sceptre of uprightness [is] the sceptre of thy kingdom.  

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  Thou hast loved righteousness and hast hated lawlessness; therefore God, thy God, has anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy companions.  

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  And, Thou in the beginning, Lord, hast founded the earth, and works of thy hands are the heavens.  

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  They shall perish, but thou continuest still; and they all shall grow old as a garment,  

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  and as a covering shalt thou roll them up, and they shall be changed; but thou art the Same, and thy years shall not fail.  

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  But as to which of the angels said he ever, Sit at my right hand until I put thine enemies [as] footstool of thy feet?  

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  Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out for service on account of those who shall inherit salvation?  

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