1 لان كل رئيس كهنة مأخوذ من الناس يقام لاجل الناس في ما للّه لكي يقدم قرابين وذبائح عن الخطايا | 1 Every high priest is taken from among human beings and is appointed to act on their behalf inrelationships with God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins; |
2 قادرا ان يترفق بالجهال والضالين اذ هو ايضا محاط بالضعف. | 2 he can sympathise with those who are ignorant or who have gone astray, because he too is subject tothe limitations of weakness. |
3 ولهذا الضعف يلتزم انه كما يقدم عن الخطايا لاجل الشعب هكذا ايضا لاجل نفسه. | 3 That is why he has to make sin offerings for himself as wel as for the people. |
4 ولا يأخذ احد هذه الوظيفة بنفسه بل المدعو من الله كما هرون ايضا. | 4 No one takes this honour on himself; it needs a cal from God, as in Aaron's case. |
5 كذلك المسيح ايضا لم يمجد نفسه ليصير رئيس كهنة بل الذي قال له انت ابني انا اليوم ولدتك. | 5 And so it was not Christ who gave himself the glory of becoming high priest, but the one who said tohim: You are my Son, today I have fathered you, |
6 كما يقول ايضا في موضع آخر انت كاهن الى الابد على رتبة ملكي صادق. | 6 and in another text: You are a priest for ever, of the order of Melchizedek. |
7 الذي في ايام جسده اذ قدم بصراخ شديد ودموع طلبات وتضرعات للقادر ان يخلصه من الموت وسمع له من اجل تقواه | 7 During his life on earth, he offered up prayer and entreaty, with loud cries and with tears, to the onewho had the power to save him from death, and, winning a hearing by his reverence, |
8 مع كونه ابنا تعلّم الطاعة مما تألم به | 8 he learnt obedience, Son though he was, through his sufferings; |
9 واذ كمّل صار لجميع الذين يطيعونه سبب خلاص ابدي | 9 when he had been perfected, he became for al who obey him the source of eternal salvation |
10 مدعوّا من الله رئيس كهنة على رتبة ملكي صادق | 10 and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek. |
11 الذي من جهته الكلام كثير عندنا وعسر التفسير لننطق به اذ قد صرتم متباطئي المسامع. | 11 On this subject we have many things to say, and they are difficult to explain because you have grownso slow at understanding. |
12 لانكم اذ كان ينبغي ان تكونوا معلّمين لسبب طول الزمان تحتاجون ان يعلمكم احد ما هي اركان بداءة اقوال الله وصرتم محتاجين الى اللبن لا الى طعام قوي. | 12 Indeed, when you should by this time have become masters, you need someone to teach you al overagain the elements of the principles of God's sayings; you have gone back to needing milk, and not solid food. |
13 لان كل من يتناول اللبن هو عديم الخبرة في كلام البر لانه طفل. | 13 Truly, no one who is stil living on milk can digest the doctrine of saving justice, being stil a baby. |
14 واما الطعام القوي فللبالغين الذين بسبب التمرن قد صارت لهم الحواس مدربة على التمييز بين الخير والشر | 14 Solid food is for adults with minds trained by practice to distinguish between good and bad. |