Hebrews 1 - Introduction
CHAPS. 1. and 2. Christ's divinity and humanity, and the bearing of each on redemption and on human feeling.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPS. 1. and 2. Christ's divinity and humanity, and the bearing of each on redemption and on human feeling.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:1-2. The author contrasts the gradual and multiform revelations given of old in the person of the prophets, with the revelation given at the end of the Jewish dispensation in the person of Him who is Son. GOD WHO... SPAKE; rather, God having spoken; the Greek expressing the _preliminary_... [ Continue Reading ]
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 God and became flesh, and this double truth pervades the book, so in the Hebrews the Deity and the hu... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:3. THE BRIGHTNESS the _effulgence_ of the divine glory, with allusion probably to the visible glory of the Shekinah over the mercy-seat, though the meaning is deeper. ‘Light of (_i.e_ emanating from Him who is the) light.' THE EXPRESS IMAGE, the impress or stamp wherein and whereby the d... [ Continue Reading ]
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 acquired (see Philippians 2:6-11). The first He had as Son before the world was; the second He obtaine... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:5. MY SON. Again by position the emphasis is on this name, and on the relation it describes: MY SON ART THOU, TODAY HAVE I BEGOTTEN THEE. These words have been referred to the incarnation, when the ‘holy thing' born of the Virgin was called Son of God (Luke 1:35); or to His resurrection an... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:5-14. Now follows the proof of this superiority in name and, as name generally implies in Scripture, in nature.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:6. AND in accordance with this relation, WHENEVER (to quote another passage, ‘again') HE BRINGETH or leadeth (literally ‘shall have led') IN THE FIRST-BEGOTTEN i NTO THE WORLD, HE SAITH, ‘ LET ALL THE ANGELS OF GOD WORSHIP HIM.' Here are several difficulties. The quotation from Psalms 97:7... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:7. As to angels, moreover, they were made by Him (not begotten). They are spirits, not sons; and His servants or ministers, a ‘flame of fire.' Some render ‘spirits' by ‘winds,' and read, ‘He maketh His angels as winds, passive, swift, and untiring.' They do His will, as do the tempest and... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:8. But whatever the difficulties in the minute interpretation of those verses, the general sense is clear. Angels are all subordinate; while to Christ are given names of a very different import God and Lord, and highest dignities a sceptre and a throne, a kingdom. A SCEPTRE OF RIGHTEOUSN... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:9. The dignity of the God-man He owes to His Father. God anointed Him as King and Priest, and gave Him honours such as kings, prophets, priests His ‘fellows,' associates that is, not necessarily equals never knew. He therefore is now the One Priest, the King of kings and Lord of lords (see... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:11. THEY ALL, _i.e_ the heavens and the earth. The language and the imagery are taken largely from Isaiah 34:4; Isaiah 51:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:12. AS A MANTLE SHALT THOU ROLL THEM UP, AS A GARMENT ALSO SHALL THEY BE CHANGED a quotation from Psalms 102, with the words ‘as a garment' added, on the authority of the best MSS. The heavens and the earth are to be lolled up as done with, and they are to be changed for a new heaven and a... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:13. SIT THOU, etc., from Psalms 110:1. The right hand is the place of authority and honour. Thy footstool, lit. a footstool of thy feet not a resting-place for the feet, but what is to be trodden under by them. The application of this Psalm to the Messiah is accepted by the Jews, as appear... [ Continue Reading ]
Hebrews 1:14. ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS? a blending in reverse order of the expressions found in Hebrews 1:7. The play upon the words ‘ministering spirits sent forth to minister' is not in the Greek. The original is simply ‘ministering spirits continually sent forth on (or for) service.'... [ Continue Reading ]