Hebrews 1:3

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high; WHO BEING - by pre-existent and essential being. BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY, [ apaugasma (G541)] - the effulgence of His glory. 'Light of (from) light' ('Nicene Creed'). 'The sun is never seen without effulgence, nor the Father without the Son' (Theophylact). It is because He is the brightness, etc., and because He upholds, etc., that He sat down on the right hand, etc. It was a return to His divine glory (John 6:62; John 17:5: cf. 'Wisdom,' 7: 25,26)....

3._Who being the brightness of his glory, etc. _These things are said of Christ partly as to his divine essence, and partly as a partaker of our flesh. When he is called_the brightness of his glory and the impress of his substance, _his divinity is referred to; the other things appertain in a measure to his human nature. The whole, however, is stated in order to set forth the dignity of Christ. But it is for the same reason that the Son is said to be “the brightness of his glory”, and “the impress of his substance:” they are words borrowed from nature. For nothing can be said of things so great and so profound, but by similitudes taken from created things. There is therefore no need refinedly to discuss the question how the Son, who has the same essence with the Father, is a brightness emanating from his light. We must allow that there is a degree of impropriety in the language when what...

1-3 God spake to his ancient people at sundry times, through successive generations, and in divers manners, as he thought proper; sometimes by personal directions, sometimes by dreams, sometimes by visions, sometimes by Divine influences on the minds of the prophets. The gospel revelation is excellent above the former; in that it is a revelation which God has made by his Son. In beholding the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Lord Jesus Christ, we behold the power, wisdom, and goodness of the Father, John 14:7; the fulness of the Godhead dwells, not typically, or in a figure, but really, in him. When, on the fall of man, the world was breaking to pieces under the wrath and curse of God, the Son of God, undertaking the work of redemption, sustained it by his almighty power and goodness. From the glory of the person and office of Christ, we proceed to the glory of his grace. The glory of...

Verse Hebrews 1:3. _THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY_] Απαυγασμα της δοξης The resplendent outbeaming of the essential glory of God. _Hesychius_ interprets απαυγασμα by ηλιουφεγγος, the _splendour of the sun_. The same form of expression is used by an apocryphal writer, _Wisdom_ _Wisdom _Hebrews 7:26, where, speaking of the uncreated wisdom of God, he says: "For she is the _splendour of eternal light_, απαυγασμα γαρ εστι φωτος αΐδιου, and the unsullied mirror of the energy of God, and the image of his goodness." The word αυγασμα is that which has splendour _in itself_ απαυγασμα is the splendour _emitted from_ _it_; but the _inherent_ splendour and the _exhibited_ splendour are radically and essentially the same. The express image of

WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY - This verse is designed to state the dignity and exalted rank of the Son of God, and is exceedingly important with reference to a correct view of the Redeemer. Every word which is employed is of great importance, and should be clearly understood in order to a correct apprehension of the passage. First, in what manner does it refer to the Redeemer? To his divine nature? To the mode of his existence before he was incarnate? Or to him as he appeared on earth? Most of the ancient commentators supposed that it referred to his divine dignity before he became incarnate, and proceed to argue on that supposition on the mode of the divine existence. The true solution seems to me to be, that it refers to him as incarnate, but still has reference to him as the incarnate “Son of God.” It refers to him as Mediator, but not simply or mainly as a man. It is rather...

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

WHO BEING THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS GLORY,.... Or "of glory"; of God the Father, the God of glory, and who is glory itself; so called on account of his glorious nature and perfections and because of the glorious manifestations of them in his works of creation and providence, and in the various dispensations of his grace, and especially in his Son; and because he is the author of all glory, in the creatures, in the whole world, in Christ as man and Mediator, and in his own people. Now Christ is the "brightness" of this, as he is God; he has the same glorious nature and perfections, and the same glorious names, as Jehovah, the Lord of glory, c. and the same glory, homage, and worship given him: the allusion is to the sun, and its beam or ray: so some render it "the ray of his glory" and may lead us to observe, that the Father and the Son are of the same nature, as the sun and its ray; and that...

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 1:3 th/j duna,mewj auvtou/( kaqarismo,n {B} Although the reading diV auvtou/ kaqarismo,n (î46 Dgr* 236 263 2005 2127) may appear to be rather strongly supported, the weight of Dgr* is considerably weakened when one takes into account the presence of a conflation in that manuscript (tw|/ r`h,mati th/j duna,mewj auvtou/( diV auvtou/ kaqarismo.n…_)_. 3 On the whole the Committee thought it more likely that diV auvtou/ or diV e`autou/ (Dc K L M 614 1739 _Byz Lect al_) was added in order to enhance the force of the middle voice of poihsa,menoj...

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