8:1 Capitulum autem super ea quæ dicuntur : Talem habemus pontificem, qui consedit in dextera sedis magnitudinis in cælis,
8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken, this is the sum: We have such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the throne of majesty in the heavens,
8:2 sanctorum minister, et tabernaculi veri, quod fixit Dominus, et non homo.
8:2 A minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord hath pitched, and not man.
8:3 Omnis enim pontifex ad offerendum munera, et hostias constituitur : unde necesse est et hunc habere aliquid, quod offerat.
8:3 For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that he also should have some thing to offer.
8:4 Si ergo esset super terram, nec esset sacerdos : cum essent qui offerent secundum legem munera,
8:4 If then he were on earth, he would not be a priest: seeing that there would be others to offer gifts according to the law.
8:5 qui exemplari, et umbræ deserviunt cælestium. Sicut responsum est Moysi, cum consummaret tabernaculum : Vide (inquit) omnia facito secundum exemplar, quod tibi ostensum est in monte.
8:5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things. As it was answered to Moses, when he was to finish the tabernacle: See (saith he) that thou make all things according to the pattern which was shewn thee on the mount.
8:6 Nunc autem melius sortitus est ministerium, quanto et melioris testamenti mediator est, quod in melioribus repromissionibus sancitum est.
8:6 But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament which is established on better promises.
8:7 Nam si illud prius culpa vacasset, non utique secundi locus inquireretur.
8:7 For if that former had been faultless, there should not indeed a place have been sought for a second.
8:8 Vituperans enim eos dicit : Ecce dies venient, dicit Dominus : et consummabo super domum Israël, et super domum Juda, testamentum novum,
8:8 For, finding fault with them, he saith: Behold the days shall come, saith the Lord: and I will perfect, unto the house of Israel and unto the house of Juda, a new testament:
8:9 non secundum testamentum quod feci patribus eorum in die qua apprehendi manum eorum ut educerem illos de terra Ægypti : quoniam ipsi non permanserunt in testamento meo : et ego neglexi eos, dicit Dominus.
8:9 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
8:10 Quia hoc est testamentum quod disponam domui Israël post dies illos, dicit Dominus : dando leges meas in mentem eorum, et in corde eorum superscribam eas : et ero eis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum :
8:10 For this is the testament which I will make to the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: I will give my laws into their mind: and in their heart will I write them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.
8:11 et non docebit unusquisque proximum suum, et unusquisque fratrem suum, dicens : Cognosce Dominum : quoniam omnes scient me a minore usque ad majorem eorum :
8:11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord. For all shall know me, from the least to the greatest of them.
8:12 quia propitius ero iniquitatibus eorum, et peccatorum eorum jam non memorabor.
8:12 Because I will be merciful to their iniquities: and their sins I will remember no more.
8:13 Dicendo autem novum : veteravit prius. Quod autem antiquatur, et senescit, prope interitum est.
8:13 Now in saying a new, he hath made the former old. And that which decayeth and groweth old is near its end.