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Hebrews 2

Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation

1 Therefore ought we more diligently to observe the things which we have heard lest perhaps we should let them slip.

2 For if the word spoken by angels became steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward:

3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? Which, having begun to be declared by the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.

4 God also bearing them witness by signs and wonders and divers miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will. CCC

5 For God hath not subjected unto angels the world to come, whereof we speak.

6 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

7 Thou hast made him a little lower than the angels: thou hast crowned him with glory and honour and hast set him over the works of thy hands.

8 Thou hast subjected all things under his feet. For in that he hath subjected all things to him he left nothing not subject to him. But now we see not as yet all things subject to him.

9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God he might taste death for all. CCC

10 For it became him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, who had brought many children into glory, to perfect the author of their salvation, by his passion. CCC

11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one. For which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying:

12 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I praise thee. CCC · Fathers

13 And again: I will put my trust in him. And again: Behold I and my children, whom God hath given me. CCC

14 Therefore because the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner hath been partaker of the same: that, through death, he might destroy him who had the empire of death, that is to say, the devil: CCC

15 And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude. CCC

16 For nowhere doth he take hold of the angels: but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.

17 Wherefore, it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest before God, that he might be a propitiation for the sins of the people. CCC

18 For in that wherein he himself hath suffered and been tempted he is able to succour them also that are tempted. CCC

This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church

Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text.

  1. Verse 4CCC 156
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    • CCC 156 “What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths appear as true and intelligible in the light of our…”
  2. Verse 9CCC 624
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    • CCC 624 “By the grace of God" Jesus tasted death "for every one". In his plan of salvation, God ordained that his Son should…”
  3. Verse 10CCC 609
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    • CCC 609 “By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no…”
  4. Verse 12CCC 2602
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    • CCC 2602 “Jesus often draws apart to pray in solitude, on a mountain, preferably at night. He includes all men in his prayer, for…”

    • “midst of my brethren; and I will praise thee in the midst of the assembly of the saints.”

      Quoted in The Letter of Barnabas, Unknown author (early 2nd century), Chapter VI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1

  5. Verse 13CCC 2777
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    • CCC 2777 “In the Roman liturgy, the Eucharistic assembly is invited to pray to our heavenly Father with filial boldness; the Eastern liturgies develop…”
  6. Verse 14CCC 407 CCC 635
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    • CCC 407 “The doctrine of original sin, closely connected with that of redemption by Christ, provides lucid discernment of man's situation and activity in…”
    • CCC 635 “Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and…”
  7. Verse 15CCC 635 CCC 1520 CCC 2602
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    • CCC 635 “Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and…”
    • CCC 1520 “A particular gift of the Holy Spirit. the first grace of this sacrament is one of strengthening, peace and courage to overcome…”
    • CCC 2602 “Jesus often draws apart to pray in solitude, on a mountain, preferably at night. He includes all men in his prayer, for…”
  8. Verse 17CCC 609 CCC 827
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    • CCC 609 “By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no…”
    • CCC 827 “Christ, 'holy, innocent, and undefiled,' knew nothing of sin, but came only to expiate the sins of the people. the Church, however,…”
  9. Verse 18CCC 609
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    • CCC 609 “By embracing in his human heart the Father's love for men, Jesus "loved them to the end", for "greater love has no…”
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