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Hebrews 1:4

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1:4 Thus he became 1  so far better than the angels as 2  he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

Hebrews 1:6

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1:6 But when he again brings 3  his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him! 4 

Hebrews 2:5

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Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity

2:5 For he did not put the world to come, 5  about which we are speaking, 6  under the control of angels.

Hebrews 2:7

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2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.

You crowned him with glory and honor. 7 

Hebrews 2:16

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2:16 For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

1 tn Grk “having become.” This is part of the same sentence that extends from v. 1 through v. 4 in the Greek text.

2 tn Most modern English translations attempt to make the comparison somewhat smoother by treating “name” as if it were the subject of the second element: “as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, CEV). However, the Son is the subject of both the first and second elements: “he became so far better”; “he has inherited a name.” The present translation maintains this parallelism even though it results in a somewhat more awkward rendering.

sn This comparison is somewhat awkward to express in English, but it reflects an important element in the argument of Hebrews: the superiority of Jesus Christ.

3 tn Or “And again when he brings.” The translation adopted in the text looks forward to Christ’s second coming to earth. Some take “again” to introduce the quotation (as in 1:5) and understand this as Christ’s first coming, but this view does not fit well with Heb 2:7. Others understand it as his exaltation/ascension to heaven, but this takes the phrase “into the world” in an unlikely way.

4 sn A quotation combining themes from Deut 32:43 and Ps 97:7.

5 sn The phrase the world to come means “the coming inhabited earth,” using the Greek term which describes the world of people and their civilizations.

6 sn See the previous reference to the world in Heb 1:6.

7 tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other mss, not quite as impressive in weight, lack the words (Ì46 B D2 Ï). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.



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