Hebrews · Chapter 2

[ edit] Therfore more plenteuouſly it bihoueþ vs for to kepe þo þingis, þat we han herd, leſt perauenture we fleten awey. Forſoþ if þe ilke word þat is ſeyd by aungels is maad ſad, and ech treſpaſſyng, or breking of þe lawe, and vnobedience took iuſt retribucioun of mede, how ſchulen we aſcape, if we ſchulen deſpiſe ſo greet heelþe? Þe which, whanne it hadde takun bigynnynge for to be told out by þe Lord, of hem þat herden is confermyd into vs; God to gidere witneſſynge by ſygnes, wondris, and greete merueylis, and dyuerſe vertues, and diſtribuciouns of þe Hooly Goſt, vp his wille. Forſoþ not to aungelis God ſugetide þe roundneſſe of erþe to comynge, of which we ſpeken.

Soþli ſum man witneſſide in ſum place, ſeiynge, What þing is man, þat þou art myndeful of him, or mannis ſone, for þou viſitideſt him? Þou haſt maad him litil, a litil leſſe fro aungelis; þou haſt crowned him wiþ glorie and onoure; þou haſt ordeyned him vpon werkis of þin hondis. Þou haſt maad alle þingis ſuget vndir his feet. Forſoþ in þat þing þat he ſugetide alle þingis to him, he lefte no þing vnſuget to him. Forſoþ now we ſeen not ȝit alle þingis ſuget to him; forſoþ we ſeen hym, þat a litil is maad leſſe þan aungelis, Jheſu, for paſſioun of deeþ crowned wiþ glorie and honour, þat he þorw grace of God ſchulde taaſte deeþ for alle men.

Forſoþ it bicaam him, for whom alle þingis, and by whom alle þingis, þe which hadde led to gidere manye ſones into glorie, þe maker of þe heelþe of hem, for to ende by paſſiouns. Soþely he þat halowiþ, and þei þat ben halowid, of oon alle; for which cauſe he is not confoundid, or ſchamed, for to clepe hem briþeren, ſeiynge, I ſchal telle þi name to my briþeren; in þe myddil of þe chirche I ſchal herie þee. And eftſoone, I ſchal be triſtynge into him; and eftſoone, Lo! I and my children, þe whiche God ȝaf to me.

Þerfore for children comuneden to fleiſch and blood, and he alſo took part of þe ſame, þat by deeþ he ſchulde diſtroye hym þat hadde lordſchip of deeþ, þat is to ſeie, þe deuel, and ſchulde delyuere hem þat by drede of deeþ, by al lyf weren boundun to ſeruage. Forſoþ he cauȝte, or took to, neuere aungels, but he cauȝte þe ſeed of Abraham. Wherfore he ouȝte to be licned to briþeren by alle þingis, þat he ſchulde be maad mercyful and feiþful byſchop to God, þat he ſchulde be mercyful to þe treſpaſſis, or giltis, of þe peple. Forſoþe in þat þing in which he ſuffride, and was temptid, he is myȝty for to helpe and hem þat ben temptid.