Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now going to reach perfection through what is external?
Answer me this one question, »Is it on the ground of your obedience to the Law that you received the Spirit, or is it because, when you heard, you believed?«
Have you endured such sufferings to no purpose–if indeed it has been to no purpose?
For a sacred tent was constructed–the outer one, in which were the lamp and the table and the presented loaves; and this is called the Holy place.