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Hebrews 2:16
For, verily, He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.
For, verily, He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the seed of Abraham.
Verse 16. _FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON_ him the nature of _angels_] Ου γαρ δηπου αγγελων επιλαμβανεται, αλλα σπερματος Αβρααμ επιλαμβανεται. _Moreover, he doth not at all take hold of angels_; _but of...
FOR VERILY - Truly. HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS - Margin, “He taketh not hold of angels, but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold.” The word used here - ἐπιλαμβάνεται epilambanetai - me...
II. CHRIST, SON OF MAN, HIS GLORY AND HIS SALVATION CHAPTER 2:5-18 _ 1. The Man crowned with glory and honor (Hebrews 2:5)_ 2. His humiliation, suffering and the results (Hebrews 2:10) Hebrews 2:5...
HEBREWS 1:5 TO HEBREWS 2:18. THE SON IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. For this theme the way has been prepared in the closing words of Hebrews 1:14. The section may possibly be directed against angel-worshi...
Resuming his argument, the writer deals with the objection that Christ cannot be ranked above the angels in view of His earthly humiliation. This objection is answered by conclusions drawn from _Psalm...
For, in his work of bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that he for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of salvation fully adequate for his desti...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
VERILY. certainly. Greek. _depou._ Only here. TOOK, &C. = taketh not (App-105) hold of angels. TOOK. Greek. _epilambanomai._ First occurance: Matthew 14:31. Compare Acts 9:27....
_For verily he took not on him the nature of angels_ Rather, "for assuredly it is not angels _whom He takes by the hand_." The word δήπου, "certainly," "I suppose," occurs here only in the N. T. or LX...
ΟΥ̓ ΓᾺΡ ΔΉΠΟΥ Κ.Τ.Λ., “_for assuredly it is not angels_ whom He takes by the hand.” The word δήπου, “certainly,” “I suppose” (_opinor_), occurs here only in the N. T. or LXX., though common in Philo....
A FULLER STATEMENT OF THE MORAL FITNESS OF CHRIST’S PARTICIPATION IN HUMAN SUFFERINGS...
CH. 2. A SOLEMN WARNING AND EXHORTATION (1–4). CHRIST’S TEMPORARY HUMILIATION FOR THE REDEMPTION AND GLORIFICATION OF MANKIND DOES NOT DISPARAGE HIS PRE-EMINENCE OVER ANGELS (5–13), BUT WAS NECESSARY...
_HOW THE SAVIOUR IS ABLE TO SUCCOR THOSE THAT ARE TEMPTED -- HEBREWS 2:16-18:_ Christ did not take upon himself the nature of angles because the angels sinned without a tempter. There was no one who s...
ΔΉΠΟΥ (G1222) конечно, точно, ΈΠΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΕΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΠΙΛΑΜΒΆΝΟΜΑΙ (G1949) удерживать, хватать, брать себе. В данном контексте это слово может значить помогать, привлекать к себе...
FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM, &C.— The version of the margin is here to be preferred, wherewith the Vulgate agrees. The word επιλαμβανεται is used several times in the New Testament with a genitive c...
b. _It was necessary for Christ to become human in order to sympathise with men through experience. Hebrews 2:16-18_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 2:16-18 16 For verily not to angels doth He give help, but He giv...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. (Hebrews 2:14-16) The closing verses of Hebrews 2 are so rich and full in their contents and the subjects with which they deal are of such importance that we feel the more...
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. FOR VERILY, [ deepou (G1222)] - 'For as we all grant.' Paul alludes to Isaiah 41:8; Jeremiah 31:32,...
11 The destruction of the earth and the heavens is but a crisis in their change (12), for they are not to be made non-existent, but created anew. All things are in a state of flux until the consummati...
2:16 hand], (a-12) It means 'to take hold of,' but it is constantly used for 'taking up a person to help him,' though in other senses as well. We say, 'he took him by the hand,' but this may be too f...
JESUS EXALTED IN HUMILIATION 1-4. The former dispensation, even though mediated by comparatively inferior beings such as the angels, was yet so sacred that all neglect of it was severely punished. Th...
RV 'not of angels doth he take hold.' The word does not mean (as in AV) to assume the nature of, but to put out a hand in order to support or help. 'Christ took in hand to save not angels but you, my...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO *ANGELS IN HIS MESSAGE 2:1-4 V1 That is why we must take in what we have heard. We must do this so that we do not...
(5-18) It was needful that Jesus, as Author of salvation to man, should in all points be made like to those whom He saves, and in their likeness suffer and die; thus He becomes for them a merciful and...
HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS. — The rendering of the margin approaches very nearly the true meaning of the verse; whereas the text (in which the Authorised version differs from all our earl...
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....
This saving brotherhood involved incarnation and death. For, as it has ever been the common lot of the παιδία to live under the conditions imposed by flesh and blood, subject to inevitable dissolution...
The humiliation of the Son justified; “a condensed and pregnant view of the theory of the whole work of Christ, which subsequent Chapter s develop, eludicate, and justify dialectically, in contrast or...
Having sufficiently brought out the permanence and sovereignty of the Son by contrasting them with the fleeting personality and ministerial function of angels, the author now proceeds to bring the sup...
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...
“MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN” Hebrews 2:10 _ Captain_ reminds us of Acts 3:15. It means _file-leader_. The Church follows its Leader, Jesus Christ, in single file through this world, the cross and th...
Here we have the first of a series of warnings uttered in connection with the arguments. If the ministrations of angels had been of so steadfast a character, how much more the speech of the Son. The d...
WHY DID JESUS COME TO EARTH? Jesus' purpose on earth was not to release angels from slavery, but man (2:16). Lightfoot says, "The entire thought is that He laid hold of men in order to help them out...
(15) For verily he took not on [him the (b) nature of] angels; but he took on [him] the (c) seed of Abraham. (15) He explains those words of flesh and blood, showing that Christ is true man, and not...
For nowhere doth he take hold of the Angels. [4] Literally, that he apprehendeth, or layeth hold on the Angels; that is, according to the common interpretation, we nowhere find that he hath united the...
(16) For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. (17) Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merc...
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,...
16._For verily, _or, _For nowhere, etc. _By this comparison he enhances the benefit and the honor with which Christ has favored us, by putting on our flesh; for he never did so much for angels. As the...
This is the reason why it is so much the more needful to hearken t the word spoken, in order that they should not let it pass away form life and memory. God had maintained the authority of the word th...
FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS,.... Good angels; for they are all along spoken of in this book; and it would have been impertinent to have said this of evil angels: and this is to...
Having asserted the incarnation of the Lord Christ, the captain of our salvation, and showed the necessity of it, from the ends which were to be accomplished by it, and therein given the reason of his...
For verily he took not on _him the nature of_ angels; but he took on _him_ the seed of Abraham. Ver. 16. _For verily he took not_] επιλαμβανεται. Or, for nowhere took he, q. d. We find not anywhere,...
HEB. 2:16. FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON (HIM THE NATURE) OF ANGELS; BUT HE TOOK ON (HIM) THE SEED OF ABRAHAM. The _Blank Bible:_ The particle "for" connects the verse with the 14th with these words for...
_For verily he took not on him_ Greek, ου γαρ αγγελων επιλαμβανεται, _he took_, or _taketh, not hold of angels_, to save them from the abyss of misery into which they are fallen, as not taking their n...
TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS; or, as the margin, taketh not hold of angels, for the purpose of saving them; and so in the following clause. The way in which he takes hold of the seed of Abraha...
The first four verses of this chapter now press upon us the appropriate conclusions that must be drawn from so transcendent a revelation of the glory of God. "For this reason we should give heed more...
TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS, BUT HE TOOK ON HIM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM: _ Gr._ he taketh not hold of Angels, but of the seed of Abraham he taketh hold...
14-18 The angels fell, and remained without hope or help. Christ never designed to be the Saviour of the fallen angels, therefore he did not take their nature; and the nature of angels could not be a...
OLBGrk; FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM THE NATURE OF ANGELS: the Spirit having asserted the deliverance of the children from their slavery to the devil, shows here the means by which it was effected, e...
Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna That Lord, I say, who in His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin's womb became ineffably incarnate; that Lord, who was part...
Hebrews 2:16 For G1063 indeed G1222 does G1949 not G3756 aid G1949 (G5736) angels G32 but G235 aid...
Hebrews 2:16. VERILY is feeble, as is even _assuredly._ The word means, it is known, admitted, and admitted everywhere; it is nowhere questioned. HE TOOK NOT on him; rather, ‘on angels (or in later E...
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...
VERILY (δε που). "Now in some way," only here in N.T.DOTH HE TAKE HOLD (επιλαμβανετα). Present middle indicative and means to lay hold of, to help, like βοηθησα in verse Hebrews 2:18.THE SEED OF...
HE TOOK Not of angels doth he take hold, but he taketh hold of. Compare Septuagint (Isaiah 41:9)....
Hebrews 2:16 Christian Sympathy. I. We are all of one nature, because we are sons of Adam; we are all of one nature, because we are brethren of Christ. The thought of Him, "the beginning of the creat...
Hebrews 2:11 I. The first truth which is brought before us in these verses is, that Jesus, who is not ashamed to call Himself brother, and us His brethren, is one with us. We who are sanctified by Him...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ It is well to give heed to what you are now hearing, but i...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ That is to say, because Jesus is so great, because the tru...
CONTENTS: Warning against neglecting so great a salvation. Earth to be put under Christ. Jesus temporarily lower than angels to work out salvation for man. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan...
Hebrews 2:1. _We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard._ The things relating to the glory of the person of Christ, and all his offices as mediator; these we ought to st...
IT IS NOT THE ANGELS. _MacKnight_ understands this: _"Moreover, by no means doth he take hold of_ the _angels_ who sinned, to save them; _but of_ those who are _the seed of Abraham_ by faith _he taket...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:5 Jesus is also superior to angels since, as Son of Man, the world is subjected to him, though this has yet to be fully revealed (vv. Hebrews 2:5). Jesus’ sacrificial sufferi...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 2:5. WORLD TO COME.—The new dispensation. Rabbinical teaching was divided under two heads: (1) _hâ‘ôlâm hazzeh_ (the present world), and (2) _hâ‘ôlâm habbâ_ ...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 2:1 INTERPOSED EXHORTATION as explained above. HEBREWS 2:1 ON THIS ACCOUNT (_i.e. _on account of what has been seen of the SON'S superiority to the angels)...
1 Peter 1:20; Galatians 3:16; Galatians 3:29; Genesis 22:18; He
Verily [δ η π ο υ]. N. T. o. Doubtless, as is well known. Took not on him [ο υ ε π ι λ α μ β α ν ε τ α ι]. Rend. he doth not take hold. Comp. Matthew 14:31; Mark 8:23; Acts 18:17. Absolutely, in the s...
For verily he taketh not hold of angels — He does not take their nature upon him. But he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham — He takes human nature upon him. St. Paul says the seed of Abraham, rather...
It may be rendered from the original thus: HE CATCHED NO HOLD ON ANGELS, BUT ON MAN HE CATCHED HOLD.. metaphor taken from. person that catches hold of another who is falling down some deep and dangero...