For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward;
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
For if the word spoken by the Angels That is, if the law delivered to Moses by Angels, became firm and was to be obeyed, and the transgressors punished, how much more is this true of the new law delivered by our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and preached by his disciples that heard him, and which hath been confirmed by so many miracles, and by so many gifts of the Holy Spirit, which the believers have received? (Witham)
Why ought we to give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard? Were not those former things of God, as well as these? Either then he means more earnest than [to] the Law, or very earnest; not making comparison, God forbid. For since, on account of the long space of time, they had a great opinion of the Old Covenant, but these things had been despised as yet new, he proves (more than his argument required) that we ought rather to give heed to these. How? By saying in effect, Both these and those are of God, but not in a like manner. And this he shows us afterwards: but for the present he treats it somewhat superficially, but afterwards more clearly, saying For if that first covenant had been faultless Hebrews 8:7, and many other such things: for that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away. Hebrews 8:13 But as yet he ventures not to say any such thing in the beginning of his discourse, nor until he shall have first occupied and possessed his hearer by his fuller [a...
And is appointed to afford an interval of rest to the souls of the righteous, until the consummation of all things shall complete the resurrection of all men with the "full recompense of their reward."
