2. able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;
3. and because of this infirmity he ought, as for the people, so also for himself to offer for sins;
4. and no one to himself doth take the honour, but he who is called by God, as also Aaron:
5. so also the Christ did not glorify himself to become chief priest, but He who spake unto him: `My Son thou art, I to-day have begotten thee;'
6. as also in another [place] He saith, `Thou [art] a priest--to the age, according to the order of Melchisedek;'
7. who in the days of his flesh both prayers and supplications unto Him who was able to save him from death--with strong crying and tears--having offered up, and having been heard in respect to that which he feared,
8. through being a Son, did learn by the things which he suffered--the obedience,
9. and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
10. having been addressed by God a chief priest, according to the order of Melchisedek,
11. concerning whom we have much discourse and of hard explanation to say, since ye have become dull of hearing,