Sunday, 5 August 2018

For to which of the angels did He ever say:
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”?
And again:
“I will be to Him a Father,
And He shall be to Me a Son”? Hebrews 1:5

The author now goes from his statement that Christ is “so much better than the angels” to a demonstration of this by asking rhetorical questions.… Read the rest

Saturday, 4 August 2018

…having become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. Hebrews 1:4

The author now introduces the first of many “greater thans” that will be seen, either explicitly or implicitly, in the book. This one is Christ in comparison to the angels.… Read the rest

Friday, 3 August 2018

…who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, Hebrews 1:3

The words here speak of Christ Jesus.… Read the rest

Thursday, 2 August 2018

…has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; Hebrews 1:2

These words are a contrast to verse 1. God once spoke in a certain way to the fathers by the prophets, but something new has come.… Read the rest

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, Hebrews 1:1

Rather than opening with a greeting, or an appeal for blessing upon the reader, the epistle to the Hebrews begins with an outright statement of theological truth.… Read the rest