Hebrews 1:12

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. VESTURE, [ peribolaion (G4018)] - 'an enwrapping cloak.' FOLD THEM UP. Septuagint, Psalms 102:26 [ helixeis (G1667)]; but Hebrew, 'change them.' The Spirit, by Paul, treats the Old Testament with independence of handling, presenting the divine truth in various aspects; sometimes sanctioning Septuagint (cf. Isaiah 34:4; Revelation 6:14); sometimes the Hebrew; sometimes varying fr...

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 between God and men, and some went so far as to pay them a kind of religious homage or worship. Thus it was necessary that the apostle should insist, not only on Christ's being the Creator of all things, and therefore of angels themselves, but as being the risen and exalted Messiah in human nature, to whom angels, authorities, and powers are made subject. To prove this, several passages are brought from the Old Testament. On comparing what God there says of the angels, with what he says to Christ, the inferiority of the angels to Christ plainly appears. Here is the office of the angels; they are God's ministers or servants, to do his pleasure. But, how much greater things are said of Christ by th...

Verse Hebrews 1:12. _AND THEY SHALL BE CHANGED_] Not _destroyed_ ultimately, or _annihilated_. They shall be _changed_ and _renewed_. _BUT THOU ART THE SAME_] These words can be said of no being but God; all others are _changeable_ or _perishable_, because temporal; only that which is _eternal_ can continue _essentially_, and, speaking after the manner of men, _formally_ the _same_. _THY YEARS SHALL NOT FAIL._] There is in the Divine duration no circle to be run, no space to be measured, no time to be reckoned. All is eternity - infinite and onward....

AND AS A VESTURE - A garment; literally something thrown around - περιβόλαιον peribolaion - and denoting properly the outer garment, the cloak or mantle; see notes, Matthew 5:40. “Shalt thou fold them up.” That is, the heavens. They are represented in the Scriptures as an “expanse.” or something spread out (the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:7): as a “curtain,” or “tent” Isaiah 40:22, and as a “scroll” that might be spread out or rolled up like a book or volume, Isaiah 34:4; Revelati

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 be set forth in the sequel, of the revelation of God in Christ excelling far, and being destined to supersede, all that had preceded it, as being the ultimate Divine manifestation in the SON, according to the full meaning of the term involved in ancient prophecy;—of the eternal Divinity of him who was thus revealed in time as SON—of his accomplishing, as such, the reality signified by the ancient priesthood; and of his exaltation, as such, to his predestined glory and dominion on high. We find in the introduction to some of St. Paul's Epistles somewhat similar adumbrations of his subject, but none so finished

AND AS A VESTURE SHALT THOU FOLD THEM UP,.... In order to lay them aside, and make no use of them in the manner they now are; just as clothes, when they are grown old, or out of fashion, are folded up, and laid aside from use at present, or are put into another form. In the Hebrew text it is, "as a vesture shalt thou change them"; but the sense is the same, for a garment is changed by folding it, or turning it; agreeably to which Jarchi interprets the Hebrew phrase thus, "as a man turns his garment to put it off;'' the Vulgate Latin version reads as the Hebrew does, and one of the manuscripts of New College, Oxford. AND THEY SHALL BE CHANGED; as to their form and use, not as to their being; for a change, and an annihilation, are two things: BUT THOU ART THE SAME, AND THY YEARS SHALL NOT FAIL; which is expressive of the immutability of Christ, in his nature and perfections, in his per...

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, lest at any time we should let them slip. Hebrews 1:1. _God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,_ The best last is ever God's rule. «Thou hast kept the best wine until now.» Prophets are a very blessed means of communication, but how much more sure, how much more condescending is it for God to speak to us by his Son! Hebrews 1:2. Whom he hath appointed heir of all thing, by whom also he m

HEBREWS 1:12 e`li,xeij {A} Instead of e`li,xeij, which is supported by the great preponderance of witnesses, two manuscripts (a* D*) read avlla,xeij, (the preponderant reading of Psalms 101:27 LXX), subsequently altered by correctors to ei`li,zeij....

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 warning (Hebrews 2:1) Hebrews 1:1 Sublime is the beginning of this precious document. God who in many measures and in many ways spake of old to the fathers in the prophets, at the end of these days hath spoken to us in a Son, whom He constituted heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds; who being the effulgence of His glory and the expression of His substance, and upholding all things by the wor

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-worship, which in some churches, as we know from Colossians, was encroaching on the faith in Christ. More probably the writer's aim is simply to enforce the supremacy of Christ as compared with even the highest of created beings. In Hebrews 1:5 he collects a number of Scripture texts which illustrate the relative worth of Christ and the angels. These texts are interpreted by the allegorical method_ i.e._ they are taken not in their historical meaning