5:1 Omnis namque pontifex ex hominibus assumptus, pro hominibus constituitur in iis quæ sunt ad Deum, ut offerat dona, et sacrificia pro peccatis :

5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

5:2 qui condolere possit iis qui ignorant et errant : quoniam et ipse circumdatus est infirmitate :

5:2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

5:3 et propterea debet, quemadmodum pro populo, ita etiam et pro semetipso offerre pro peccatis.

5:3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

5:4 Nec quisquam sumit sibi honorem, sed qui vocatur a Deo, tamquam Aaron.

5:4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

5:5 Sic et Christus non semetipsum clarificavit ut pontifex fieret : sed qui locutus est ad eum : Filius meus es tu, ego hodie genui te.

5:5 So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

5:6 Quemadmodum et in alio loco dicit : Tu es sacerdos in æternum, secundum ordinem Melchisedech.

5:6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

5:7 Qui in diebus carnis suæ preces, supplicationesque ad eum qui possit illum salvum facere a morte cum clamore valido, et lacrimis offerens, exauditus est pro sua reverentia.

5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

5:8 Et quidem cum esset Filius Dei, didicit ex iis, quæ passus est, obedientiam :

5:8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

5:9 et consummatus, factus est omnibus obtemperantibus sibi, causa salutis æternæ,

5:9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

5:10 appellatus a Deo pontifex juxta ordinem Melchisedech.

5:10 Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.

5:11 De quo nobis grandis sermo, et ininterpretabilis ad dicendum : quoniam imbecilles facti estis ad audiendum.

5:11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

5:12 Etenim cum deberetis magistri esse propter tempus, rursum indigetis ut vos doceamini quæ sint elementa exordii sermonum Dei : et facti estis quibus lacte opus sit, non solido cibo.

5:12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

5:13 Omnis enim, qui lactis est particeps, expers est sermonis justitiæ : parvulus enim est.

5:13 For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

5:14 Perfectorum autem est solidus cibus : eorum, qui pro consuetudine exercitatos habent sensus ad discretionem boni ac mali.

5:14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.