Hebrews 2:6

But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? BUT - Not unto angels is the Gospel kingdom subjected, "BUT" to MAN. ONE ... TESTIFIED. The usual way of quoting Scripture to readers familiar with it. Psalms 8:5 praises Yahweh for exalting MAN, so as to subject all God's works on earth to him. This dignity, lost by the first Adam, is realized only in the Son of man, the Representative Man, Head of our redeemed race. In Hebrews 2:6 MAN is spoken of in general ("him ... him ... his"); then, at Hebrews 2:9, first, JESUS is introduced, fulfilling, as man, all the conditions...

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 Christ, is left to the government of the angels: Christ will take to him his great power, and will reign. And what is the moving cause of all the kindness God shows to men in giving Christ for them and to them? it is the grace of God. As a reward of Christ's humiliation in suffering death, he has unlimited dominion over all things; thus this ancient scripture was fulfilled in him. Thus God has done wonderful things for us in creation and providence, but for these we have made the basest returns....

Verse Hebrews 2:6. _BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE_] This _one_ is _David_; and the _certain place_, Psalms 8:4. But why does the apostle use this indeterminate mode of quotation? Because it was common thus to express the testimony of any of the inspired writers; אמר ההוא _amar hahu kethab_, thus saith a certain scripture. So _Philo_, De Plant. Noe: Ειπε γαρ που, _he saith somewhere_; ειπε γαρ τις, _a certain person saith_. Thus even the heathens were accustomed to quote _high authorities_; so _Plato_, Tim.: Ὡς εφη τις, _as a_ _certain person saith_, meaning _Heraclitus_. See in _Rosenmuller_. It is such a mode of quotation as we sometimes use when we speak of a very eminent person who is well known; as _that very eminent_ _person_, th...

BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE TESTIFIED - The apostle was writing to those who were supposed to be familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures, and where it would be necessary only to make a reference in general without mentioning the name. The place which is quoted here is Psalms 8:4. The “argument” of the apostle is this, that there stood in the sacred Scriptures a declaration that “all things were placed under the control and jurisdiction of man,” but that that had not yet been accomplished. It was not true (Hebrews 2:8) that all things were subject to him, and the complete truth of that declaration would be found only in the jurisdiction conferred on the Messiah - the man by way of eminence - the incarnate Son of God. It would not occur to anyone probably in reading the Psalm that the verse h

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) WE OUGHT (or, _we are bound_)_ _MORE ABUNDANTLY TO GIVE HEED TO THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE HEARD (_i.e. _the gospel that has been preached to us in the Son), LEST AT ANY TIME (or, _lest haply_)_ _WE LET THEM SLIP (rather, _float past them_)_. _The word παραρρυῶμεν (aorist subjunctive from παραρρέω)_ _denotes flowing or floating past anything. The allusion is to the danger, inci

BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE TESTIFIED,.... That is, David, for he is the penman of the psalm, out of which the following words are taken; and though his name is not mentioned by the apostle, nor the particular place, or the psalm pointed at, as in Acts 13:33 yet this was not through ignorance of either, nor out of disrespect to the penman; but because the apostle is writing to Jews, who were conversant with the Scriptures, and knew full well who said the words, and where they were: and it is usual with the Jews to cite passages in this manner; and the form by which the passage is introduced, by the word testified, is quite agreeable to their way of citing Scripture, of which there is another instance in Hebrews 7:17 and I think that this form is only used in this epistle to the Hebrews, with which they were acqua

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 not be like the driftwood which goes floating down the stream. Let us make a desperate effort to retain them in our memories; and, above all, to ponder them in our hearts. Hebrews 2:2. _For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation;_ They could not trifle with the angels' message without receiving just punishment from God. Much less, then, can we trifle with Christ's gospel. We have not an angelic saviour; but God himself, in the person of his So

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 Angels are once more mentioned and the fact is stated first of all that angels are not called of God to reign: “Unto the angels hath He not put in subjection, the world to come whereof we speak.” “The world to come” is not heaven or the eternal state. The literal translation is “the habitable world to come”; it is the existing earth, inhabited by human beings in the dispensation which will follow the present age. The world in the dispensation to come, called in Ephesians “the dispensation of the f

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

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