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Hebrews 2:7
Thou madest Him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst Him with glory and honor, and didst set Him over the works of thy hands;
Thou madest Him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst Him with glory and honor, and didst set Him over the works of thy hands;
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Verse Hebrews 2:7. _THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS_] We must again have recourse to the original from which this quotation is made: ותחסרהו מעט מאלהים _vattechasserehu meat meelohim_....
THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS - Margin, “A little while inferior to.” The Greek may here mean a little inferior in rank, or inferior for a little time. But the probable meaning is, th...
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...
It was not to angels that he subjected the order of things to come of which we are speaking. Somewhere in scripture someone bears this witness to that fact: "What is man that you remember him? Or the...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
MADEST... LOWER. Greek. _elattoo._ Only here, Hebrews 2:9, and John 3:30 (decrease). A LITTLE. for. little while. THE. Omit. CROWNEDST. Greek. _stephanoo._ See 2 Timothy 2:5. GLORY.
_a little lower_ The "little" in the original (_mëat_) means "little in degree;" but is here applied to time "for a little while" as is clear from Hebrews 2:9. The writer was only acquainted with the...
[ΚΑῚ ΚΑΤῈΣΤΗΣΑΣ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ ἘΠῚ ΤᾺ ἜΡΓΑ ΤΩ͂Ν ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν ΣΟΥ]. This clause, retained in the rec., is found in אACM Vulg. &c., but not in BKL, and may be only a gloss added from the LXX. 7. ΒΡΑΧΎ ΤΙ. The “littl...
THE VOLUNTARY HUMILIATION OF JESUS WAS A NECESSARY STEP IN THE EXALTATION OF HUMANITY...
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 COULD WE NOT APPRECIATE ONE WHO DIED FOR ALL -- HEBREWS 2:5-9:_ We must give loving obedience to Jesus Christ because God has put the world to come in subjection unto Him._ _ The church can depen...
ΉΛΆΤΤΩΣΑΣ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΛΑΤΤΌΩ (G1642) уменьшать, понижать, понижать в чине (Buchanan). Это может значить делать ниже Бога, или, как это передает Септ., "ниже, чем ангелы, или небесные создания...
DISCOURSE: 2274 CHRIST’S SUPERIORITY TO ANGELS Hebrews 2:6. _One in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? Thou mades...
BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE, &C.— "Nor think it strange, that a man should be invested with such extraordinary power; for as the Psalmist says of manin general, that he is _Lord of all the creation;_ t...
D. _He is superior to angels in recovering man's dominion of the earth: Hebrews 2:5-18_ 1) _Original dominion of the earth by God's people, lost through sin, to be restored through Christ: Hebrews...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. (Hebrews 2:5-9) The scope, the order of thought, and the logical bearings of our present passage are not so easily discerned as those we have already gone over. That it...
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: A LITTLE - or ['Aleph (')] (Hosea 1:4), 'for a little time.'...
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...
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...
A LITTLE LOWER] This is the meaning of the Heb, but the rendering 'for a little lower' (RM) seems to be required for the argument. Man's inferiority to the angels is only temporary....
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...
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...
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...
That God has been mindful of man and visited him is apparent in the three particulars now mentioned. βραχύ τι is “a little,” either in material, or in space, or in time. In 1 Samuel 14:29, ἐγευσάμην β...
THE AUTHOR OF OUR SALVATION Hebrews 2:1 _ Drifting away_, Hebrews 2:1. The r.v. gives this solemn rendering. Unless we watch, the strong currents of the world will drift us away from God's great harb...
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...
MADE A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS God chose to put Christ in charge of restoring man to his lost dominion over the world, rather than using the angels for restoration. The world spoken of in this pl...
Thou (i) madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with (k) glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: (i) This is the first honour of the citizens of the wo...
_ Thou hast made him a little less than the Angels. Man's nature, even the human nature of Christ in itself, is inferior to the nature of Angels, though raised to a degree of dignity above other creat...
(5) For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. (6) But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of ma...
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,...
7._Thou madest him, etc. _A new difficulty now arises as to the explanation of the words. I have already shown that the passage is fitly applicable to the Son of God; but the Apostle seems now to turn...
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...
THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS,.... In the Hebrew text it is, "than Elohim", which some render, "than God"; but it is rightly rendered by the apostle, "than angels"; and so the Targum,...
The apostle in these verses proceeds in the pursuit of his former design. From the doctrine of the first chapter, he presseth the exhortation at the beginning of this, which we have passed through. Th...
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: Ver. 7. _A little lower_] Or, for a little while, _Paulisper,...
HEB. 2:7. THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS; THOU CROWNEDST HIM WITH GLORY AND HONOUR, AND DIDST SET HIM OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS: _ Thou madest him a little lower than the angels_] M...
_Thou madest him_ That Isaiah, 1 st, Man, when first created; _a little lower than the angels_ So the LXX., and all the old Greek translations, as also the Targum, read the clause; but the Hebrew, מעש...
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...
LITTLE LOWER THEN: Or, a little while inferior to...
5-9 Neither the state in which the church is at present, nor its more completely restored state, when the prince of this world shall be cast out, and the kingdoms of the earth become the kingdom of C...
OLBGrk;OLBHeb; THOU MADEST HIM: Hlattwsav, so diminished, as it supposed the subject to be in a higher condition before: this no man ever was, but the man Christ Jesus: see PHILIPPIANS 2:7,8. A LITTLE...
Hebrews 2:7 made G1642 him G846 little G1024 G5100 lower G1642 (G5656) than G3844 angels G32 crowned...
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...
THOU MADEST HIM A LITTLE LOWER (ελαττωσας αυτον βραχυ τ). First aorist active of old verb ελαττοω from ελαττων (less), causative verb to lessen, to decrease, to make less, only here, and verse Hebre...
Hebrews 2:5 Consider: I. What it is that the Son of man, humbling Himself for us, hath endured. There are two expressions used to suffer death and to taste death. Let us remember that between Jesus,...
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._ We have heard them; do not let us forget them. Let them no...
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...
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...
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...
FOR A LITTLE WHILE. Mankind, in this world which is under the curse, is for a little while lower than the angels. Christ, in taking our human nature (Romans 8:3; Hebrews 10:5; Hebrews 2:14), became, l...
_A little lower than the angels_ HUMILIATION THE WAY TO EXALTATION All the forementioned branches of Christ’s advancement, which are here and Isaiah 53:12; Eph Philippians 2:10, audio sundry other p...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:7 YOU MADE HIM. Some think the author of Hebrews 1:1, quoting Psalms 8:1,
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)...
Hebrews 2:9...
Thou hast made him — Adam. A little lower than the angels — The Hebrew is, a little lower than (that is, next to) God. Such was man as he came out of the hands of his Creator: it seems, the highest of...