Discovery BoxHebrews 1:5 
Context1:5 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 2:9
Context2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, 6 now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, 7 so that by God’s grace he would experience 8 death on behalf of everyone.
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 Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”
7 tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”
8 tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).
