The world to come; or, the coming age. This was a common expression with the Jewish Rabbis to indicate the expected reign of the Messiah, which is the Christian dispensation in its whole course to the end of time and the final judgment.
Verse Hebrews 2:5. _THE WORLD TO COME_] That עולם הבא _olam habba, the_ _world to come_, meant the _days of the Messiah_ among the Jews, is most evident, and has been often pointed out in the course...
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION - In this verse the apostle returns to the subject which he had been discussing in Hebrews 1:1 - the superiority of the Messiah to the angels. From 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...
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...
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...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
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...
FOR, &C. Read, "For not (App-105) to angels did He subject". UNTO. to. WORLD. Greek. _oikoumene._ App-129. Compare Hebrews 1:6. WHEREOF. concerning (Greek. _peri_ App-104) which,...
The voluntary humiliation of Jesus was a necessary step in the exaltation of Humanity 5. _For_ The "for" resumes the thread of the argument about the superiority of Jesus over the Angels. He was to b...
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...
THE VOLUNTARY HUMILIATION OF JESUS WAS A NECESSARY STEP IN THE EXALTATION OF HUMANITY...
ΓΆΡ. The “_for_” resumes the thread of the argument about the superiority of Jesus over the Angels. He was to be the supreme king, but the necessity of passing through suffering to His Messianic thron...
_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...
ΎΠΈΤΑΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΎΠΟΤΆΣΣΩ (G5293) подчинять, подчинять своей власти, ΟΙΚΟΥΜΈΝΗ (G3625) населенная земля, ΜΈΛΛΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться. Рабби считали грядущий...
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS— _"Angels,_ as I told you, are only ministering spirits; and though the law was given by them, yet in the present dispensation they have nothing to do in dispensing the gospel: for...
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...
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. FOR - confirming Hebrews 2:2, that the new covenant was spoken by One higher than the mediators of the old co...
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...
2:5 come, (a-14) A known division among the Jews. First, 'this age;' and then what was to be introduced by the Messiah. see ch. 6.5 and Note h, ch. 9.9; Titus 2:12 ....
RV 'not unto angels did he subject.' The position of the negative is emphatic. THE WORLD TO COME, WHEREOF WE SPEAK] i.e, the new dispensation, which is the theme of our Epistle. In the world to come...
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...
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...
FOR. — There is a very clear connection between this verse and Hebrews 1:14. “Angels are but ministering spirits, serving God in the cause of those who shall inherit salvation; _for_ not to angels is...
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....
Οὐ γὰρ ἀγγέλοις.… “For not to angels”. With γὰρ the writer proceeds to clinch the exhortation contained in Hebrews 2:1-4, by exhibiting the ground of it. Under the old Covenant angels had been God's m...
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...
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...
(3) For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the (f) world to come, whereof we speak. (3) If it was an atrocious matter to condemn the angels who are but servants, it is much more atrocious...
_God hath not put in subjection to the Angels the [2] world to come. By the world to come, is meant the Church of Christ to the end of the world, and succeeding to the state of those who served God un...
(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,...
5._For unto the angels, etc. _He again proves by another argument that Christ ought to be obeyed; for the Father has conferred on him the sovereignty of the whole world, while the angels are wholly de...
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 UNTO THE ANGELS,.... Though angels were concerned in the giving of the law, and were frequently employed under the former dispensation, in messages to men, and in making revelations of God's mind...
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...
For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak. Ver. 5. _For unto the angels, &c._] The Jews, as they had embraced the Pythagorean transanimation,Matthew 16:14,...
HEB. 2:5. FOR UNTO THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION THE WORLD TO COME, WHEREOF WE SPEAK. In the following _Blank Bible_ note Edwards sees this verse as indication that Christ himself was the...
_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) _...
A further argument for the superiority of Christ's word:...
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS HATH HE NOT PUT IN SUBJECTION THE WORLD TO COME, WHEREOF WE SPEAK....
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...
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...
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS: the Spirit having applied the doctrine of the great gospel Minister, exceeding the prophets of old, and having a more excellent name and office than angels, in respect of his Deit...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews and "made a little lower" by Him "than angels,"[323] Cyprian Epistle LXVI and ought to collect and cherish all the sheep which Christ by His blood and passion sought...
Hebrews 2:5 For G1063 not G3756 put G5293 world G3625 come G3195 (G5723) which G4012 G3739 speak...
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 2:5. FOR. This verse introduces a new proof of the superiority of the Gospel; but it is also connected with what precedes. The most natural explanation is to connect the ‘for' with Hebrews 1:1...
FOR NOT UNTO ANGELS (ου γαρ αγγελοις). The author now proceeds to show (Hebrews 2:5-18) that the very humanity of Jesus, the Son of Man, likewise proves his superiority to angels.THE WORLD TO COME...
WORLD (Greek, "oikoumenē", means "inhabited earth"). (_ See Scofield) - (Luke 2:1). _...
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._ 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...
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...
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...
GOD DID NOT. The TEV is clearer here. Christ created the earth (see Hebrews 1:10), and he did not create it for angels, but for mankind, as the next verse shows. Remember: Christ in his incarnation is...
_Put in subjection the world to come_ THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE FUTURE I. IF CHRIST IS THE SOVEREIGN OF THE FUTURE, WE SHOULD HOLD STRONG FAITH IN THE UNIVERSAL TRIUMPHS OF HIS SYSTEM. 1. He has plent...
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)...
2 Peter 3:13; Hebrews 6:5; Revelation 11:15...
The writer's object is to show that the salvation, the new order of things inaugurated by Christ, is in pursuance of the original purpose of creation, to wit, that universal dominion was to pertain to...
This verse contains a proof of Hebrews 2:3; the greater the salvation is, and the more glorious the Lord whom we despise, the greater will be our punishment. God hath not subjected the world to come —...
Still our apostle prosucutes his former design, which was to persuade the Hebrews, that more heed is to be given to the word of Christ, the doctrine of the gospel, than to the word or law delivered by...