Verse 14. _ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS_] That is, _They_ _are all_ ministering spirits; for the Hebrews often express the strongest _affirmative_ by an interrogation. All the angels, even t...
ARE THEY NOT ALL - There is not one of them that is elevated to the high rank of the Redeemer. Even the most exalted angel is employed in the comparatively humble office of a ministering spirit appoin...
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...
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...
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)...
MINISTERING. Greek. _leitourgikos._ Only here. Compare Hebrews 1:7 and App-191. SENT FORTH. Greek. _apoatello._ App-174. TO MINISTER. for (Greek. _eis)_ ministry (Greek. _diakonia._ App-190.) FOR....
_ministering spirits, sent forth to minister_ Here as elsewhere the A. V. obliterates distinctions, which it so often arbitrarily creates out of mere love for variety in other places. The word "minist...
ILLUSTRATIONS FROM SCRIPTURE OF THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO ANGELS...
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...
ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚᾺ ΠΝΕΎΜΑΤΑ ΕἸΣ ΔΙΑΚΟΝΊΑΝ, “_ministering spirits … for service_.” Here as elsewhere the A.V. obliterates distinctions, which it so often arbitrarily creates out of mere love for variety in ot...
_GOD'S ANGELS ARE SERVANTS, NOT SONS -- HEBREWS 1:13-14:_ The superiority of Christ over angels is seen in the fact that God never said to the angels what He said to Christ. He said to Jesus, "Sit on...
ΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΚΌΣ (G3010) служебный; здесь: служение. Суффикс этого слова обозначает принадлежность чему-л., которая является характерной чертой (МН, 378). ΔΙΑΚΟΝΊΑ (G1248) служба (TDNT). Раввинистический...
DISCOURSE: 2272 THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS Hebrews 1:14. _Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?_ THE superiority of Christ to angels occup...
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS— "I asked, To which of the angels said God at any time, _Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?_"—And Iam well satisfied that no passage c...
_Superior to angels in universal rule because He is served by angels Hebrews 1:13-14_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 1:13-14 Hebrews 1:13 But of which of the angels hath He said at any time, Sit thou on my
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. (Hebrews 1:10-13) The closing verses of Hebrews 1 present a striking climax to the apostle’s argument. They contain the most touching and also the most thrilling references...
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? MINISTERING SPIRITS - Hebrews 1:7, "spirits, and his ministers" Incorporeal spirits, as God,...
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...
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...
CHRIST IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. They are not addressed by God as 'sons,' but are expressly commanded to worship the Son. The angels are servants doing the will of God in the lower sphere of the mate...
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...
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS? — In this verse and the preceding is repeated the contrast of Hebrews 1:7, in reversed order. The words “ministering spirits” at once recall the “ministers” 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...
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...
GOD MADE JESUS A KING God causes His angelic messengers to be changed into whatever form suits His purpose (Hebrews 1:7; Psalms 104:4). They are simply servants to do God's bidding. Jesus' greatness i...
Are they not all (x) ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? (x) By that name by which we commonly call princes messengers, he here calls the spirits....
Sit on my right hand, &c. The ancient Jews themselves understood this 109th psalm of their Messias, nor could they answer Christ's words, (Matthew xxii. 45.) when he shewed them by these same words, t...
REFLECTIONS Praises to the Lord Jehovah, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for the eternal purpose, which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord! And praises to his holy name, that he hath been pleased to ma...
(10) And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: (11) They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as do...
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,...
_THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS_ ‘Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?’ Hebrews 1:14 The word translated ministering is a strictly liturgic...
14._Are they not all, etc. _That the comparison might appear more clearly, he now mentions what the condition of angels is. For calling them _spirits, _he denotes their eminence; for in this respect t...
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...
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS,.... Servants to God, to Christ, and to his people, and therefore must be inferior to the Son of God. The phrase is Rabbinical; frequent mention is made in Jewish...
The apostle having proved the pre-eminence of the Son, as mediator of the new testament, above all the angels, from those attributions of honor and glory that are made unto him in the Scriptures, the...
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? Ver. 14. _Are they not_] See nly Common-place of Angels. _ Sent forth to minister, &c._] The sa...
Heb. 1:10-14. And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. They shall perish, but thou remainest: and they all shall wax old...
MINISTERING SPIRITS; GENESIS 19:1-23; PSALMS 34:7; PSALMS 103:21; DANIEL 6:22;...
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS, SENT FORTH TO MINISTER FOR THEM WHO SHALL BE HEIRS OF SALVATION? Having begun with the object of establishing the superiority of Christ over all created beings in...
A comparison between Christ and the angels:...
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...
ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS? The apostle here proves, that angels are but ministers to the great gospel Minister, and to the members of his body the church, and so must be meaner than him for...
Athenagoras A Plea for the Christians and who declare both their power in union and their distinction in order, called atheists? Nor is our teaching in what relates to the divine nature confined to t...
Hebrews 1:14 they G1526 (G5748) not G3780 all G3956 ministering G3010 spirits G4151 forth G649 (G5746) to...
THE SUPERIORITY OF THE SON TO THE ANGELS (HEBREWS 1:5 TO HEBREWS 2:14) He Is Now Contrasted With The Angels, the Heavenly Beings and Intermediaries between God and the world (Hebrews 1:5). Having rev...
Hebrews 1:14. ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS? a blending in reverse order of the expressions found in Hebrews 1:7. The play upon the words ‘ministering spirits sent forth to minister' is not in...
Hebrews 1:5-14. Now follows the proof of this superiority in name and, as name generally implies in Scripture, in nature....
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...
MINISTERING SPIRITS (λειτουργικα πνευματα). Thayer says that λειτουργικος was not found in profane authors, but it occurs in the papyri for "work tax" (money in place of service) and for religious s...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
Hebrews 1:14 Ministry of Angels. I. The angels are ministering, _i.e._worshipping, spirits; beings engaged in the perpetual liturgy of the glorious temple above. That temple has never wanted its wors...
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...
WHAT ARE ANGELS, MEN? "Rather than ruling as kings over this Universe, angels are spirits who serve God, and are sent to help those who are to receive eternal life." Note the contrast: Christ rules; a...
_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...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 1:5. ANGELS.—Properly, any living being carrying out the Divine will is an angel, a messenger, a servant. But the word “angel” is precisely kept for such messen...
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 Kings 22:19; 1 Peter 1:12; 1 Peter 1:4; 1 Peter 3:7; 2 Corinthian
Ministering spirits [λ ε ι τ ο υ ρ γ ι κ α π ν ε υ μ α τ α]. Summing up the function of the angels as compared with Christ. Christ's is the highest dignity. He is co - ruler with God. The angels are s...
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...
Are they not all — Though of various orders. Ministering spirits, sent forth — Ministering before God, sent forth to men. To attend on them — In numerous offices of protection, care, and kindness. Who...
This is that last testimony produced by the apostle to prove Christ's pre-eminency above the angels. He is. Son, they are but servants to believers, to the church of Christ, to the heirs of salvation....