Being made so much better, &c. The Arians pretended from hence that Christ was made, or created. But the apostle speaks of Christ as man, and tells us that Christ, even as man, by his ascension was exalted above the Angels. --- As he hath inherited a more excellent name. That is, both the dignity and name of the Son of God, of his only Son, and of his true Son. See 1 John v. 20. (Witham)
Verse Hebrews 1:4. _SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS_] Another argument in favour of the Divinity of our Lord. The Jews had the highest opinion of the transcendent excellence of angels, they even assoc...
BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER - Being exalted so much above the angels. The word “better” here does not refer to moral character, but to exaltation of rank. As Mediator; as the Son of God in our nature, h...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD AND His GLORY CHAPTER 1-2:4 _ 1. The Son in whom God hath spoken (Hebrews 1:1)_ 2. So much better than the angels (Hebrews 1:5) 3. Admonition and...
INTRODUCTION. In a majestic opening sentence the writer declares the theme which he proposes to develop in the Chapter s that follow. Christianity is the final and all-sufficient religion, for Christ...
He was the superior to the angels, in proportion as he had received a more excellent rank than they. For to which of the angels did God ever say: "It is my Son that you are; it is I who this day have...
THE END OF FRAGMENTS (Hebrews 1:1-3)...
BEING MADE. Having become. HATH... OBTAINED. hath inherited. more excellent. Greek. _diaphoros._ See Romans 12:6. NAME. Compare Acts 2:21; Acts 3:16;...
_being made_ Rather, "becoming," or "_proving himself to be_." The allusion is to the Redemptive Kingdom of Christ, and the word merely qualifies the "better name." Christ, regarded as the Agent or Mi...
THESIS OF THE EPISTLE...
CH. 1. FINALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE OF GOD’S FINAL REVELATION IN CHRIST (1–4). ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHRIST’S PREEMINENCE ABOVE ANGELS (5–14). CH. 6. AN EXHORTATION TO ADVANCE BEYOND ELEMENTARY CATECHETICAL...
ΤΟΣΟΎΤΩΙ. The familiar classical ὅσῳ … τοσούτῳ (involving the comparison and contrast which runs throughout this Epistle, Hebrews 3:3; Hebrews 7:20; Hebrews 8:6;...
_GOD'S SON IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS -- HEBREWS 1:4-7:_ The Lord Jesus Christ is pre-eminent. He is superior to the prophets and to the angels. Peter wrote of Jesus that He, "is gone into heaven, and...
ΤΟΣΟΎΤΟΣ (G5118) так много, столько. _Dat._ instr. используется с _сотр._, "насколько больше" (RWP). ΚΡΕΊΤΤΩΝ (G2909) _сотр. от_ ΆΓΑΘΌΣ хороший; _сотр._ лучше, превосходящий. Это слово чаще всего вст...
BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS,— _Being made so much superior to,_ or _more excellent than the angels, by how much he hath obtained a more excellent name than they._ The word Κεκληρονομηκεν...
II. _He is superior to the angels Hebrews 1:4 to Hebrews 2:18_. A. _In name:_ My Son Hebrews 1:4-5. _TEXT_...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. (Hebrews 1:4-14) One of the first prerequisites for a spiritual workman who is approved of God, is that he must prayerfully and constantly aim at a "rightly dividing" of th...
Being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name...
1 Though the title, "Hebrews" is not inspired, the opening strain shows that this epistle is addressed to Israelites "whose are the fathers" (Rom_9:5), and who alone had the oracles of God. No author...
THE FINAL REVELATION IN THE SON 1-4. Introduction. God of old revealed Himself to the fathers of the race, but the revelation was not complete or final. In our own day He has given a direct revelatio...
BEING MADE] RV 'having become,' i.e. by His exaltation. BETTER] a characteristic word of the whole Epistle, which is designed to show the superiority in all points of the new dispensation to the old....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CONTENTS About the letter to the Hebrews Shape of the letter to the Hebrews Notes to explain the letter to the Hebrews Word List Book List AB...
BEING MADE. — Better, _having become._ These words must be closely joined with the last clause of Hebrews 1:3; they speak, not of the glory which was ever His, but of that which _became_ His after He...
CHAPTER II THE SON AND THE ANGELS Hebrews 1:4 - Hebrews 2:18 The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of emanations....
to Hebrews 2:18. _The Son and the Angels_. Hebrews 1:4, although forming part of the sentence 1 3, introduces a subject which continues to be more or less in view throughout chaps 1 and 2. The exaltat...
GOD'S FINAL AND SUPREME MESSENGER Hebrews 1:1 Christianity is greater than the Mosaic dispensation because it has been given through the Son, whereas the Law came through angels. See Acts 7:53. The...
The first words of this epistle plunge to the heart of the subject. Two truths are revealed: the first, God; the second, that God has revealed Himself. Two periods of revelation are referred to, that...
CHRIST IS SUPERIOR Jesus is the author of redemption. While on earth, He was lower than the angels (2:9). Lightfoot translates Hebrews 1:4; "having become as much superior to angels as the name he has...
(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent (i) name than they. (4) Before he comes to declare the office of Christ, he sets forth the excellenc...
(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (5) For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
4._Being made so much better, etc. _After having raised Christ above Moses and all others, he now amplifies His glory by a comparison with angels. It was a common notion among the Jews, that the Law w...
We have said that in Chapter 1 we find the glory of the Person of the Messiah, the Son of God, by whom God has spoken to the people. When I say "to the people", it is evident that we understand the Ep...
BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS,.... Christ is so much better than the angels, as the Creator, than the creature; as an independent being, than a dependent one; as he that blesses, than he t...
The design of the apostle, as we have now often showed, is to evince the necessity of abiding in the doctrine of the gospel, from the excellency of the person by whom it pleased God to reveal it unto...
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Ver. 4. _Better than the angels_] Therefore is his doctrine, the gospel, with more heed...
HEB. 1:4. BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, AS HE HATH BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY. We have found no direct comment on this verse. However, Edwards wrote extensiv...
_Being made_ Rather _being;_ (for the word _made_ is not implied in the original expression, γενομενος ;) _so much better_ Higher; _than the angels_ As the Jews gloried exceedingly in the law of Moses...
BETTER; in dignity and office. BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED; obtained as his just right. See note to verse Hebrews 1:2. A MORE EXCELLENT NAME; that of the Son of God. Angels and men are called sons of Go...
A comparison between Christ and the angels:...
BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, AS HE HATH BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY....
In the first verse is compressed admirably the one most vital truth as to the history of man in all past ages; to which Jews would fully agree. God is, without preliminary, presented as having "in man...
4-14 Many Jews had a superstitious or idolatrous respect for angels, because they had received the law and other tidings of the Divine will by their ministry. They looked upon them as mediators betwe...
OLBGrk; BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS: this God-man, the great gospel Minister, is more excellent than angels, and so must surpass all the prophets. He became thus by being surety constitu...
Hebrews 1:4 become G1096 (G5637) much G5118 than G2909 angels G32 as G3745 obtained G2816 (G5758) excellent...
DOCTRINAL HINTS. In this Epistle, as in the Gospel of John, the doctrine is based on the Divine nature of Christ, and on His incarnation. As in the Gospel (John 1:1-18) it is said that the Word was Go...
Hebrews 1:4. HAVING BECOME, after He had made at nement for sin, as much superior to the ANGELS, AS HE HAS OBTAINED A NAME FAR MORE EXCELLENT THAN THEY. His greatness is partly essential and partly ac...
HAVING BECOME (γενομενος). Second aorist middle participle of γινομα. In contrast with on in verse Hebrews 1:3.BY SO MUCH (τοσουτω). Instrumental case of τοσουτος correlative with οσω (as) with c...
ANGELS Angel, Summary: Angel, "messenger," is used of God, of men, and of an order of created spiritual beings whose chief attributes are strength and wisdom. (2 Samuel 14:20); (Psalms 103:20); (Psa...
Hebrews 1:3 Christ above the Angels. I. It is very wonderful how, in God's ways, fixed necessity and liberty go hand in hand. From all eternity Jesus is appointed the Son of David; but the developmen...
Hebrews 1:1 The Son above the Angels. I. The Son is the end of all history. The Father hath appointed the Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, the heir of all things. There is nothing excepted that is not giv...
Hebrews 1:1. In this chapter our Saviour's glorious person is very plainly set before us, and it is made the ground of our faith, and a reason why we should give the more earnest heed to his words, le...
CONTENTS: The great salvation provided through Jesus Christ who is above prophets and better than angels. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ as God was equal with the Father, but as Go...
Hebrews 1:1. _God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake to the fathers._ By the personal appearances of Christ, the Word of the Lord; by voices, by angels, by visions, by dreams, and by im...
WAS MADE GREATER. The Jews were very proud of the Law of Moses, because it has been given through angels (Deuteronomy 33:2; Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19; H
_Being made so much better than the angels_ THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO THE ANGELS I. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS NATURE. II. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS PREROGATIVE. III. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS OFFICE. I...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 1:4 The main theme of chs. Hebrews 1:1 is announced: Jesus is SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. There was much speculation about angels in first-century Judaism. Angels m
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 1:1 Jesus Is Superior to Angelic Beings. Jesus’ identity (Hebrews 1:1) shows his superiority to angels. This superiority includes his uniqueness as Son
THE ESSENTIAL SUPERIORITY OF THE REVELATION IN THE SON _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 1:1. GOD.—Placed abruptly, as the first and emphatic word, in the English translation; and properly so p...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 1:1 EXORDIUM intimating in a succession of choice and pregnant phrases, the drift of the Epistle; a condensed summary of the coming argument. It briefly anticipates the views to b...
1 Peter 3:22; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:10;...
The detailed development of the argument is now introduced. The point is to show the superiority of the agent of the new dispensation to the agents of the old - the angels and Moses. Christ's superior...
SEEING CHRIST IN HEBREWS Hebrews 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The Book of Hebrews ever stands before us as a great Bible masterpiece on the glories of Christ. The 1st chapter, which we are using, for the...
THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO ANGELS Hebrews 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Jesus Christ was God in AGES PAST; He was God, manifest IN FLESH; He is God in the AGES TO COME. In His Deity, He is the same yeste...
This verse has two clauses, the latter of which is treated of, Hebrews 1:5; the former, Hebrews 1:13. Such transpositions are also found in the other epistles of St. Paul, but in none so frequently as...
In the foregoing verses. comparison was made between Christ and the prophets, here between Christ and the angels, and the preference and pre-eminence is given to him above them all. Angels were very g...