1750 Challoner Revision of the Douay-Rheims (DR)

Hebrews 5

1 The authority and honour of our Saviour's priesthood. 11 Negligence in the knowledge thereof is reproved.

 5:1 ¶ For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in the things that appertain to God, that he may offer up gifts and sacrifices for sins:

 5:2 Who can have compassion on them that are ignorant and that err: because he himself also is compassed with infirmity.

 5:3 And therefore he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

 5:4 Neither doth any man take the honour to himself, but he that is called by God, as Aaron was.

 5:5 So Christ also did not glorify himself, that he might be made a high priest: but he that said unto him: Thou art my Son: this day have I begotten thee.

 5:6 As he saith also in another place: Thou art a priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.

 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, with a strong cry and tears, offering up prayers and supplications to him that was able to save him from death, was heard for his reverence.

 5:8 And whereas indeed he was the Son of God, he learned obedience by the things which he suffered.

 5:9 And being consummated, he became, to all that obey him, the cause of eternal salvation:

 5:10 Called by God a high priest, according to the order of Melchisedech.

 5:11 Of whom we have much to say and hard to be intelligibly uttered: because you are become weak to hear.

 5:12 For whereas for the time you ought to be masters, you have need to be taught again what are the first elements of the words of God: and you are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat.

 5:13 For every one that is a partaker of milk is unskilful in the word of justice: for he is a little child.

 5:14 But strong meat is for the perfect: for them who by custom have their senses exercised to the discerning of good and evil.