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Verse Hebrews 1:4. _SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS_] Another argument
in favour of the Divinity of our Lord. The Jews had the highest
opinion of the transcendent excellence of angels, they even assoc...
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BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER - Being exalted so much above the angels.
The word “better” here does not refer to moral character, but to
exaltation of rank. As Mediator; as the Son of God in our nature, h...
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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...
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INTRODUCTION. In a majestic opening sentence the writer declares the
theme which he proposes to develop in the Chapter s that follow.
Christianity is the final and all-sufficient religion, for Christ...
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THE END OF FRAGMENTS (Hebrews 1:1-3)...
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He was the superior to the angels, in proportion as he had received a
more excellent rank than they. For to which of the angels did God ever
say: "It is my Son that you are; it is I who this day have...
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BEING MADE. Having become.
HATH... OBTAINED. hath inherited. more excellent. Greek. _diaphoros._
See Romans 12:6.
NAME. Compare Acts 2:21; Acts 3:16;...
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_being made_ Rather, "becoming," or "_proving himself to be_." The
allusion is to the Redemptive Kingdom of Christ, and the word merely
qualifies the "better name." Christ, regarded as the Agent or Mi...
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ΤΟΣΟΎΤΩΙ. The familiar classical ὅσῳ … τοσούτῳ
(involving the comparison and contrast which runs throughout this
Epistle, Hebrews 3:3; Hebrews 7:20; Hebrews 8:6;...
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CH. 1. FINALITY AND TRANSCENDENCE OF GOD’S FINAL REVELATION IN
CHRIST (1–4). ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHRIST’S PREEMINENCE ABOVE ANGELS
(5–14).
CH. 6. AN EXHORTATION TO ADVANCE BEYOND ELEMENTARY CATECHETICAL...
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THESIS OF THE EPISTLE...
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_GOD'S SON IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS -- HEBREWS 1:4-7:_ The Lord Jesus
Christ is pre-eminent. He is superior to the prophets and to the
angels. Peter wrote of Jesus that He, "is gone into heaven, and...
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BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS,— _Being made so much
superior to,_ or _more excellent than the angels, by how much he hath
obtained a more excellent name than they._ The word
Κεκληρονομηκεν...
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II.
_He is superior to the angels Hebrews 1:4 to Hebrews 2:18_.
A.
_In name:_ My Son Hebrews 1:4-5.
_TEXT_...
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CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS.
(Hebrews 1:4-14)
One of the first prerequisites for a spiritual workman who is approved
of God, is that he must prayerfully and constantly aim at a "rightly
dividing" of th...
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Being made so much better than the angels as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name Being made so much better than the
angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name...
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1 Though the title, "Hebrews" is not inspired, the opening strain
shows that this epistle is addressed to Israelites "whose are the
fathers" (Rom_9:5), and who alone had the oracles of God. No author...
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THE FINAL REVELATION IN THE SON
1-4. Introduction. God of old revealed Himself to the fathers of the
race, but the revelation was not complete or final. In our own day He
has given a direct revelatio...
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BEING MADE] RV 'having become,' i.e. by His exaltation.
BETTER] a characteristic word of the whole Epistle, which is designed
to show the superiority in all points of the new dispensation to the
old....
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HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN?
HEBREWS
_IAN MACKERVOY_
CONTENTS
About the letter to the Hebrews
Shape of the letter to the Hebrews
Notes to explain the letter to the Hebrews
Word List
Book List
AB...
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BEING MADE. — Better, _having become._ These words must be closely
joined with the last clause of Hebrews 1:3; they speak, not of the
glory which was ever His, but of that which _became_ His after He...
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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....
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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...
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GOD'S FINAL AND SUPREME MESSENGER
Hebrews 1:1
Christianity is greater than the Mosaic dispensation because it has
been given through the Son, whereas the Law came through angels. See
Acts 7:53. The...
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The first words of this epistle plunge to the heart of the subject.
Two truths are revealed: the first, God; the second, that God has
revealed Himself. Two periods of revelation are referred to, that...
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CHRIST IS SUPERIOR
Jesus is the author of redemption. While on earth, He was lower than
the angels (2:9). Lightfoot translates Hebrews 1:4; "having become as
much superior to angels as the name he has...
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(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent (i) name than they.
(4) Before he comes to declare the office of Christ, he sets forth the
excellenc...
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_Being made so much better, &c. The Arians pretended from hence that
Christ was made, or created. But the apostle speaks of Christ as man,
and tells us that Christ, even as man, by his ascension was e...
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(4) Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by
inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. (5) For unto
which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day
have...
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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,...
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4._Being made so much better, etc. _After having raised Christ above
Moses and all others, he now amplifies His glory by a comparison with
angels. It was a common notion among the Jews, that the Law w...
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We have said that in Chapter 1 we find the glory of the Person of the
Messiah, the Son of God, by whom God has spoken to the people. When I
say "to the people", it is evident that we understand the Ep...
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BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS,.... Christ is so much
better than the angels, as the Creator, than the creature; as an
independent being, than a dependent one; as he that blesses, than he
t...
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The design of the apostle, as we have now often showed, is to evince
the necessity of abiding in the doctrine of the gospel, from the
excellency of the person by whom it pleased God to reveal it unto...
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Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance
obtained a more excellent name than they.
Ver. 4. _Better than the angels_] Therefore is his doctrine, the
gospel, with more heed...
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HEB. 1:4. BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, AS HE HATH BY
INHERITANCE OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY.
We have found no direct comment on this verse. However, Edwards wrote
extensiv...
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_Being made_ Rather _being;_ (for the word _made_ is not implied in
the original expression, γενομενος ;) _so much better_
Higher; _than the angels_ As the Jews gloried exceedingly in the law
of Moses...
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BETTER; in dignity and office.
BY INHERITANCE OBTAINED; obtained as his just right. See note to verse
Hebrews 1:2.
A MORE EXCELLENT NAME; that of the Son of God. Angels and men are
called sons of Go...
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A comparison between Christ and the angels:...
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BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS, AS HE HATH BY INHERITANCE
OBTAINED A MORE EXCELLENT NAME THAN THEY....
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In the first verse is compressed admirably the one most vital truth as
to the history of man in all past ages; to which Jews would fully
agree. God is, without preliminary, presented as having "in man...
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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 betwe...
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OLBGrk;
BEING MADE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ANGELS: this God-man, the great
gospel Minister, is more excellent than angels, and so must surpass
all the prophets. He became thus by being surety constitu...
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Hebrews 1:4 become G1096 (G5637) much G5118 than G2909 angels G32 as
G3745 obtained G2816 (G5758) excellent...
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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...
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Hebrews 1:4. HAVING BECOME, after He had made at nement for sin, as
much superior to the ANGELS, AS HE HAS OBTAINED A NAME FAR MORE
EXCELLENT THAN THEY. His greatness is partly essential and partly
ac...
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HAVING BECOME
(γενομενος). Second aorist middle participle of γινομα.
In contrast with on in verse Hebrews 1:3.BY SO MUCH
(τοσουτω). Instrumental case of τοσουτος correlative
with οσω (as) with c...
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ANGELS
Angel, Summary:
Angel, "messenger," is used of God, of men, and of an order of
created spiritual beings whose chief attributes are strength and
wisdom. (2 Samuel 14:20); (Psalms 103:20); (Psa...
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Hebrews 1:3
Christ above the Angels.
I. It is very wonderful how, in God's ways, fixed necessity and
liberty go hand in hand. From all eternity Jesus is appointed the Son
of David; but the developmen...
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Hebrews 1:1
The Son above the Angels.
I. The Son is the end of all history. The Father hath appointed the
Lord Jesus Christ, His Son, the heir of all things. There is nothing
excepted that is not giv...
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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, le...
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CONTENTS: The great salvation provided through Jesus Christ who is
above prophets and better than angels.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ.
CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ as God was equal with the Father, but as
Go...
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Hebrews 1:1. _God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake to
the fathers._ By the personal appearances of Christ, the Word of the
Lord; by voices, by angels, by visions, by dreams, and by im...
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WAS MADE GREATER. The Jews were very proud of the Law of Moses,
because it has been given through angels (Deuteronomy 33:2; Acts 7:53;
Galatians 3:19; H
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_Being made so much better than the angels_
THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO THE ANGELS
I. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS NATURE.
II. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS PREROGATIVE.
III. THE SUPERIORITY OF HIS OFFICE.
I...
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HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 1:4 The main theme of chs. Hebrews 1:1 is
announced: Jesus is SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. There was much speculation
about angels in first-century Judaism. Angels m
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HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 1:1 Jesus Is Superior to Angelic Beings.
Jesus’ identity (Hebrews 1:1) shows his superiority to angels. This
superiority includes his uniqueness as Son
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THE ESSENTIAL SUPERIORITY OF THE REVELATION IN THE SON
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Hebrews 1:1. GOD.—Placed abruptly, as the first and emphatic word,
in the English translation; and properly so p...
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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 b...
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1 Peter 3:22; 2 Thessalonians 1:7; Colossians 1:18; Colossians 2:10;...
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The detailed development of the argument is now introduced. The point
is to show the superiority of the agent of the new dispensation to the
agents of the old - the angels and Moses. Christ's superior...
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SEEING CHRIST IN HEBREWS
Hebrews 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
The Book of Hebrews ever stands before us as a great Bible masterpiece
on the glories of Christ. The 1st chapter, which we are using, for the...
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THE SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO ANGELS
Hebrews 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
Jesus Christ was God in AGES PAST; He was God, manifest IN FLESH; He
is God in the AGES TO COME. In His Deity, He is the same yeste...
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This verse has two clauses, the latter of which is treated of, Hebrews
1:5; the former, Hebrews 1:13. Such transpositions are also found in
the other epistles of St. Paul, but in none so frequently as...
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In the foregoing verses. comparison was made between Christ and the
prophets, here between Christ and the angels, and the preference and
pre-eminence is given to him above them all. Angels were very g...