e for sins remaineth; (27)but a certain terrible
expectation of judgment, and a burning indignation, ready to devour
these enemies.

(28)Any man who treated the law of Moses with neglect, was put to
death, without mercy, on the deposition of two or three witnesses:
(29)by how much, think ye, shall he be counted worthy of more condign
punishment who hath trampled on the Son of God, and regarded the blood
of his testament, by which he was sanctified, as an unclean thing, and
hath treated the gracious Spirit contumeliously? (30)For we know him
who declares, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord[138]."
And again, "The Lord will judge his people." (31)It is a fearful thing
to fall into the hands of the living God.

(32)But remember the past days in which, after ye had been illuminated,
ye endured a great conflict of sufferings; (33)partly while publicly
exposed to revilings and tribulations, partly as being in communion
with those who were treated in this manner. (34)For ye have been
fellow-sufferers with my bonds, and received with joy the plundering of
your properties, knowing in yourselves that you have in the heavens a
better substance, and permanent.

(35)Recede not therefore from your boldness of profession, which brings
a great recompence of reward. (36)For ye have need of patience, that
after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. (37)For
yet a little, very little while, and he that is coming will come, and
will not delay. (38)"The just man then will live by faith[139];" and if
he draw back, my soul shall have no delight in him. (39)But we are not
of those who turn back unto perdition; but of those who believe to the
salvation of the soul.

CHAP. XI.

NOW faith is the realizing confidence of the things hoped for, and the
demonstration of things unseen: (2)for thereby the ancients obtained a
testimony of approbation.

(3)By faith we understand that the worlds were exactly formed by the
word of God, so that the visible objects were not made out of things
which now appear.

(4)By faith Abel offered unto God a sacrifice of more excellence than
Cain, by which he received a testimony that he was a righteous man, God
bearing witness upon his gifts: and by this, though dead, he still
speaketh.

(5)By faith Enoch was translated, so as not to see death; and was not
found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he
was recorded to have been acceptable to God. (6)But wi