Hebrews 1
Verses 1–2
Verse 3
The apostle, in the pursuit of his argument, proceeds in the description of the person of Christ; partly to give a further account of what he had before affirmed concerning his divine power in making…
Verse 4
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…
Verse 5
The apostle proceedeth to the confirmation of his proposition concerning the pre-eminence of the Lord Christ above the angels, and of his proof of it from the excellency of the name given unto him; an…
Verse 6
The apostle proceeds to the confirmation of the same important truth by another testimony, wherein we shall meet with some difficulty, both in the manner of the citation and the importance of the test…
Verse 7
Having in one testimony from the Scripture, expressing the subjection of angels unto the Lord Christ, signally proved his main design, the apostle proceedeth to the further confirmation of it in the s…
Verses 8–9
Having given an account of what the Scripture teacheth and testifieth concerning angels, in the following verses he showeth how much other things, and far more glorious, are spoken to and of the Son,…
Verses 10–12
In the following verses the apostle, by another illustrious testimony, taken out of Ps. 102, confirms his principal assertion, in the words ensuing. Ver. 10–12.—Καί· Σὺ κατʼ ἀρχὰς, Κύριε, τὴν γῆν ἐθε…
Verse 13
The next verse contains the last testimony produced by the apostle for the confirmation of the pre-eminence of the Lord Christ above angels, in the words ensuing:— Ver. 13.—Πρὸς τίνα δὲ τῶν ἀγγέλων ε…
Verse 14
The apostle having proved the pre-eminence of the Son, as mediator of the new testament, above all the angels, from those attributions of honour and glory that are made unto him in the Scriptures, the…
THE general scope and design of the apostle in this whole epistle hath been before declared, and need not here be repeated. In this first chapter he fixeth and improveth the principal consideration th…