Hebrews 1:4

having become so far superior to the angels, as the name which he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

In Context

3who, being the effulgence of his glory and the exact representation of his essence, and upholding all things by his own powerful word, when he had by himself made expiation for our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

5For to which of the angels did he at any time say: Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again: I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

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Cross References

Ephesians 1:21high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come;

Colossians 1:18and he is the head of the body, the church: and he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in all things he might be preeminent;

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to you that are afflicted, rest with us, at the revelation of our Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels,

Hebrews 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, that he might, by the grace of God, taste death for every man―we see him, on account of his having suffered death, crowned with glory and honor.

Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 1:2-4

Hebrews Concerning this epistle we must enquire, I. Into the divine authority of it; for this has been questioned by some, whose distempered eyes could not bear the light of it, or whose errors have been confuted by it; such as the Arians, who deny the Godhead and self-existence of Christ; and the Socinians, who deny his satisfaction; but, after all the attempts of such men to disparage this epistle, the divine original of it shines forth with such strong and unclouded rays that he who runs may read it is an… Read the whole commentary →

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