¶ And for this cause it is a better hope, that it was not promised without an oath.
As he also in another place speaketh: Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech.
For the law made no thing perfect: but was an introduction of a better hope, by which hope, we draw nye unto God.
Those priests were made without an oath: but this priest with an oath, by him that said unto him: The Lord sware, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech: