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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 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?
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 t...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
ONE App-123. TESTIFIED. Greek. _diamarturomai_ See Acts 2:40. MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. ART MINDFUL. Greek. _mimneskomai._ Compare Hebrews 13:3. SON OF MAN. See App-98. No article. VISITE...
_but one in a certain place testified_ The writer was of course perfectly well aware that the Psalm on which he proceeds to comment is the 8th Psalm. This indefinite mode of quotation ("some one, some...
ΔΙΕΜΑΡΤΎΡΑΤΟ ΔΈ ΠΟΎ ΤΙΣ. The writer was of course perfectly well aware that the Psalm on which he proceeds to comment is the 8th Psalm. This indefinite mode of quotation (“some one, somewhere”) is com...
THE VOLUNTARY HUMILIATION OF JESUS WAS A NECESSARY STEP IN THE EXALTATION OF HUMANITY...
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...
_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...
ΔΙΕΜΑΡΤΎΡΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΔΙΑΜΑΡΤΎΡΟΜΑΙ (G1263) свидетельствовать, торжественно заявлять (МН, 302). По поводу цитат, говорящих о неадекватности старых порядков, _см._ George В. Caird, "T...
DISCOURSE: 2274 CHRIST’S SUPERIORITY TO ANGELS Hebrews 2:6. _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? Thou mades...
BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE, &C.— "Nor think it strange, that a man should be invested with such extraordinary power; for as the Psalmist says of manin general, that he is _Lord of all the creation;_ t...
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...
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...
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...
2:6 saying, (b-6) See Psalms 8:4-6 . rememberest (c-12) An active recollection, because the object is cared for. so ch. 13.3....
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...
BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE. — Better, _somewhere._ The expression is perfectly indefinite (comp. Hebrews 4:4). As a rule, the words of Scripture are in this Epistle quoted as God’s own utterances; and...
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....
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...
(4) But one in a certain place testified, saying, (g) What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the (h) son of man, that thou visitest him? (4) He shows that the use of this kingly dignity exists...
But one; to wit, the author of the 8th Psalm said, what is man, &c. that it, man, or mankind, considered in his own frail nature, corrupted by sin, guilty of eternal death, that thou shouldst be mindf...
(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,...
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...
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 pa...
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...
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? Ver. 6. _But one in a certain place_] The full sense is, but he hat...
HEB. 2:6. BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE TESTIFIED, SAYING, WHAT IS MAN, THAT THOU ARE MINDFUL OF HIM? OR THE SON OF MAN, THAT THOU VISITEST HIM? _ Blank Bible_ 2:6 vid. note on Psa. 8:6 etc. This note...
_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; o...
ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE; PSALMS 8:4-9....
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...
OLBGrk; BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE TESTIFIED: the Spirit proves affirmatively out of one of the prophets, that with these Hebrews it might have the more weight and authority, by an elliptical speech,...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews beneath His feet."[331]...
Hebrews 2:6 But G1161 one G5100 testified G1263 (G5662) place G4225 saying G3004 (G5723) What G5101 is...
Hebrews 2:6. BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE. Some one somewhere testifies. This is not the language of uncertainty nor even of indefiniteness. It is a common formula found in Philo and, as Schoetgenius sh...
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...
BUT ONE SOMEWHERE (δε που τις). See Hebrews 4:4 for a like indefinite quotation. Philo uses this "literary mannerism" (Moffatt). He quotes Psalms 8:5-7 and extends here to Hebrews 2:8.HATH TESTIFIE...
Hebrews 2:6 Faith. I. When man rises above the merely savage state, he begins to show some signs of faith; some evidences of his looking forward to a future; some reliance upon powers which are unsee...
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._ We have heard them; do not let us forget them. Let them no...
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...
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...
INSTEAD. This is from Psalms 8:4-6 Septuagint. WHAT IS MAN? _MacKnight_ says this is Adam, who represents all mankind. MERE MAN = the son of man = all the descendants of that first man (so _Mac-Knight...
_What is man?_ WHAT IS MAN? To answer this question with anything like completeness it would be necessary to discourse upon it in much detail. Reference would have to be made to various sciences--psy...
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)...
1 Peter 1:11; Genesis 50:24; Hebrews 4:4; Hebrews 5:6; Isaiah 40:17;...
In a certain place [π ο υ]. Only here and ch. 4 4, signifying indefinite quotation. It does not mean that the writer is ignorant of the author or of the place, but assumes that the readers know it, an...
What is man — To the vast expanse of heaven, to the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained! This psalm seems to have been composed by David, in a clear, moonshiny, and starlight night, while he w...