glorify himself to be made high priest, but he who spoke to him:

Thou art my Son,
I this day have begotten thee;

(6)as also in another place, he says:

Thou art a priest forever,
After the order of Melchizedek;

(7)who, in the days of his flesh offering up prayers and
supplications, with strong crying and tears, to him who was able to
save him from death, and being heard on account of his godly fear,
(8)though a Son yet learned from what he suffered the [required]
obedience, (9)and being perfected became the author of eternal
salvation to all who obey him; (10)called by God, High Priest[5:10],
after the order of Melchizedek.

(11)Of whom we have much to say, and hard to be explained, since ye
have become dull of hearing. (12)For though ye ought, on account of
the time, to be teachers, ye again have need that some one teach you
the first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as
have need of milk, and not of solid food. (13)For every one who
partakes of milk is inexperienced in the word of righteousness; for he
is a child. (14)But solid food belongs to those who are of full age,
who by use have their senses exercised to discern good and evil.

VI.

WHEREFORE, leaving the first principles of the doctrine of Christ, let
us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance
from dead works, and of faith toward God, (2)of the doctrine of
immersions, and of the laying on of hands, and of the resurrection of
the dead, and of eternal judgment. (3)And this we will do[6:3], if God
permit. (4)For it is impossible that they who have once been
enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and been made
partakers of the Holy Spirit, (5)and have tasted the good word of God,
and the powers of the world to come, (6)and have fallen away, should
again be renewed to repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the
Son of God afresh, and put him to open shame. (7)For the earth which
has drunk in the rain oft coming upon it, and brings forth herbs fit
for those for whose sake it is tilled, receives blessing from God;
(8)but if it bears thorns and briers it is rejected, and is near to
cursing; whose end is to be burned.

(9)But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things concerning you, and
things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. (10)For God is
not unrighteous to forget your work, and the love which ye showed
toward his name, in that ye ministered and still