005:003 And for this reason he is required to offer sin-offerings not only for the people but also for himself. 005:004 And no one takes this honourable office upon himself, but only accepts it when called to it by God, as Aaron was. 005:005 So Christ also did not claim for Himself the honour of being made High Priest, but was appointed to it by Him who said to Him, "My Son art Thou: I have to-day become Thy Father;" 005:006 as also in another passage He says, "Thou art a priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek." 005:007 For Jesus during his earthly life offered up prayers and entreaties, crying aloud and weeping as He pleaded with Him who was able to bring Him in safety out of death, and He was delivered from the terror from which He shrank. 005:008 Although He was God's Son, yet He learned obedience from the sufferings which He endured; 005:009 and so, having been made perfect, He became to all who obey Him the source and giver of eternal salvation. 005:010 For God Himself addresses Him as a High Priest for ever, belonging to the order of Melchizedek. 005:011 Concerning Him we have much to say, and much that it would be difficult to make clear to you, since you have become so dull of apprehension. 005:012 For although, considering the long time you have been believers, you ought now to be teachers of others, you really need some one to teach you over again the very rudiments of the truths of God, and you have come to require milk instead of solid food. 005:013 By people who live on milk I mean those who are imperfectly acquainted with the teaching concerning righteousness. 005:014 Such persons are mere babes. But solid food is for adults-- that is, for those who through constant practice have their spiritual faculties carefully trained to distinguish good from evil. 006:001 Therefore leaving elementary instruction about the Christ, let us advance to mature manhood and not be continually re-laying a foundation of repentance from lifeless works and of faith in God, 006:002 or of teaching about ceremonial washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and the last judgement. 006:003 And advance we will, if God permits us to do so. 006:004 For it is impossible, in the case of those who have once for all been enlightened, and have tasted the sweetness of the heavenly gift, and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 006:005 and have realized how good the word of God is and how mighty are the powers of the coming Age, and then fell away-- 006:006 it is impossible, I say, to keep bringing them back to a new repentance, for, to their own undoing, they are repeatedly crucifying the Son of God afresh and exposing Him to open shame.