Hebrews 1 - Introduction
ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ Η ΠΡΟΣ ΕΒΡΑΙΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ [32] [32] The title should be simply ΠΡΟΣ ΕΒΡΑΙΟΥΣ. See Introd.... [ Continue Reading ]
ΠΑΥΛΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΟΥ Η ΠΡΟΣ ΕΒΡΑΙΟΥΣ ΕΠΙΣΤΟΛΗ [32] [32] The title should be simply ΠΡΟΣ ΕΒΡΑΙΟΥΣ. See Introd.... [ Continue Reading ]
In sonorous and dignified terms the writer abruptly makes his first great affirmation: “God having spoken … spoke”. ὁ θεὸς λαλήσας … ἐλάλησεν, for, however contrasted, previous revelations proceeded from the same source and are one in design and in general character with that which is final. In the... [ Continue Reading ]
The aim of the writer is to prove that the old Covenant through which God had dealt with the Hebrews is superseded by the New; and this aim he accomplishes in the first place by exhibiting the superiority of the mediator of the new Covenant to all previous mediators. The Epistle holds in literature... [ Continue Reading ]
ὃς ὢ ἀπαύγασμα.… “Who being effulgence of His glory and express image of His nature.” The relative ὃς finds its antecedent in υἱῳ, its verb in ἐκάθισεν; and the interposed participles prepare for the statement of the main verb by disclosing the fitness of Christ to be the revealer of God, and to mak... [ Continue Reading ]
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 exaltation of the Mediator to the right hand of Sovereignty is in keeping with His designation as Son, a de... [ Continue Reading ]
τίνι γὰρ εἶπέν ποτε τῶν ἀγγέλων … “For to which of the angels did he ever say My Son art Thou, I this day have begotten Thee?” τίνι to what individual; ποτε in the whole course of history. The angels as a class are called “Sons of Elohim” in the O.T. (Genesis 6:2; Psalms 29:1; Psalms 89:7; Job 1:6).... [ Continue Reading ]
ὅταν δὲ πάλιν εἰσαγάγῃ … “And when He shall again have brought the first-begotten into the world [of men], He says, “And let all God's angels worship Him”. Having shown that “Son” is a designation reserved for the Messiah and not given to any of the angels, the writer now advances a step and adduces... [ Continue Reading ]
καὶ πρὸς μὲν τοὺς ἀγγέλους λέγει.… The πρὸς μὲν of this verse is balanced by πρὸς δὲ in Hebrews 1:8; and in both πρός is to be rendered “with reference to,” or “of” as in Luke 20:19; Romans 10:21; Xen., _Mem._, iv. 2 15. _Cf._ Winer, p. 505: and our own expression “speak to such and such a point”. ὁ... [ Continue Reading ]
πρὸς δὲ τὸν υἱός …, the quotation being from Psalms 45 in which the King in God's kingdom is described ideally. The points in the quotation which make it relevant to the writer's purpose are the ascription of _dominion and perpetuity_ to the Son. The emphatic words, therefore, are θρόνος, εἰς τὸν αἰ... [ Continue Reading ]
ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην … “Thou lovedst righteousness and didst hate lawlessness, therefore God, thy God, anointed thee with oil of gladness above thy fellows.” The quotation is verbatim from LXX of Psalms 45:8 [the Alexand. text reads ἀδικίαν in place of ἀνομίαν, so that the author used a text not pre... [ Continue Reading ]
In Hebrews 1:10-12 the writer introduces another quotation from Psalms 102 (in LXX Psalms 101:25 7). The quotation is verbatim from the LXX except that σὺ is lifted from the fifth to the first place in the sentence, for emphasis, and that a second ὡς ἱμάτιον is inserted after αὐτούς in Hebrews 1:12.... [ Continue Reading ]