The Rheims New Testament Translation
FROM a translation of the New Testament made by the English College at Rheims, 1582, we take the following: Heb. i, 1. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spoke in times past to the fathers by the prophets, last of all. Verse 2. In these days hath spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world. Verse 3. Who being the brightness of his glory, and the figure of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, making purgation of sins, sitteth on the right hand of the Majesty on high." Note on verse 3. "The figure; that is, the express image and most perfect resemblance." Gal. iii, 19. Why then was the law? It was set because of transgression, until the seed should come to whom he made the promise, being ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.