Hebrews 1:5

The Son Is Superior to Angels

1:5 For to which of the angels did God 1  ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? 2  And in another place 3  he says, 4  “I will be his father and he will be my son.” 5 

Hebrews 5:5

5:5 So also Christ did not glorify himself in becoming high priest, but the one who glorified him was God, 6  who said to him, “You are my Son! Today I have fathered you,” 7 

Hebrews 11:12

11:12 So in fact children 8  were fathered by one man – and this one as good as dead – like the number of stars in the sky and like the innumerable grains of sand 9  on the seashore. 10 

1 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

2 tn Grk “I have begotten you.”

sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.

3 tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.

4 tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.

5 tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”

sn A quotation from 2 Sam 7:14 (cf. 1 Chr 17:13).

6 tn Grk “the one”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

7 tn Grk “I have begotten you”; see Heb 1:5.

sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.

8 tn Grk “these”; in the translation the referent (children) has been specified for clarity.

9 tn Grk a collective “the sand.”

10 sn An allusion to Gen 22:17 (which itself goes back to Gen 15:5).