_Therefore_, &c. The foregoing display of the greatness of the Son of God being designed to convince mankind of the great excellence and importance of that gospel of which he is the author, and of the great guilt of disobeying, neglecting, or apostatizing from it, the apostle now proceeds to caution... [ Continue Reading ]
_For if the word spoken by angels_ The law delivered by their ministry. It is nowhere affirmed that the law was _given_ by angels, but that the people received it, εις διαταγας αγγελων, _by the disposition, administration_, or _deputation of angels, Acts 7:53_; and that it was διαταγεις, _ordained,... [ Continue Reading ]
_For_, &c. This verse contains a proof of the third: the greater the salvation is, and the more glorious the Lord whom we despise, the greater will be our punishment. _Unto the angels hath he_ (God) _not put in subjection the world to come_ That is, as most commentators have understood the clause, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_But one in a certain place_ Namely, David, Psalms 8:4; _testified, saying, What is man_ The Hebrew word אנושׁ, used in the Psalm, means _weak, miserable_, and _mortal man;_ man in his fallen state; obnoxious to grief, sorrow, anxiety, pain, trouble, and death: _that thou art mindful of him_ What is... [ Continue Reading ]
_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, מעשׂ מאלהים, is _a little lower than God;_ the word _God_ being probably put by an ellipsis for _the an... [ Continue Reading ]
_Thou hast put all things All things_ without exception; _in subjection_ Υποκατω των ποδων αυτου, _under his_ very _feet_ Such are the psalmist's words, expressive of a dominion every way unlimited and absolute. _For in that_ it is said, _he put all_ things _under him, he left nothing_ That is, noth... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse the apostle expresses, in his own words, what he before expressed in those of the psalmist. _For it became him_ It was suitable to all his attributes, especially to his justice and mercy, his holiness and goodness, his wisdom and truth; _for whom_ As their ultimate end; _and by whom_ A... [ Continue Reading ]
_For_ As if he had said, And it appears that it was meet that Christ should suffer, because, having the same nature with us, it was necessary he should thus be made like us, who must suffer before we can reign; _both he that sanctifieth_ That washes men from their sins in his blood, renews them in t... [ Continue Reading ]
_Forasmuch then as the children_ Believers, who are Christ's spiritual seed; _are partakers of flesh and blood_ Of human nature with all its infirmities; _he also took part of the same_ See on Philippians 2:8; _that through_ his own _death, he might destroy_ the tyranny of _him that had_ By God's pe... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 nature upon him; _but he took_, or _taketh_, hold of _the seed of Abraham_ And hath made a gracious p... [ Continue Reading ]
_Wherefore in all things_ That essentially pertain to our nature, and in all sufferings and temptations; _it behooved him_ In respect of the office, duty, and employment he had taken upon him; or it was highly fit and proper, yea, necessary, in order to his design of redeeming them; _to be made like... [ Continue Reading ]