16. For men swear by what is greater than themselves, and an oath as confirmation is the end of all their controversy.
17. In this matter, God, wanting to reveal more thoroughly the immutability of his counsel to the heirs of the promise, interposed an oath,
18. so that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have the strongest solace: we who have fled together so as to hold fast to the hope set before us.
19. This we have as an anchor of the soul, safe and sound, which advances even to the interior of the veil,
20. to the place where the forerunner Jesus has entered on our behalf, so as to become the High Priest for eternity, according to the order of Melchizedek.