Hebrews 1:4

taking a place by so much better than the angels, as he inherits a name more excellent than they.

Darby Translation

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] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

5For to which of the angels said he ever, *Thou* art my Son: this day have *I* begotten thee? and again, *I* will be to him for father, and *he* shall be to me for son?

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Cross References

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

Colossians 1:18And *he* is the head of the body, the assembly; who is [the] beginning, firstborn from among the dead, that *he* might have the first place in all things:

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with [the] angels of his power,

Hebrews 2:9but we see Jesus, who [was] made some little inferior to angels on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; so that by the grace of God he should taste death for every thing.

Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard [the] voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and their number was ten thousands of ten thousands 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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