² just as they were handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word,^(A)

God Has Spoken by His Son

1 Long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

²⁹ How much worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace?^(A)