1 God, having spoken many times and in many ways in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

2 has in these last times spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the ages;

3 who being the brightness of his glory and the [express] image of his substance and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;