Hebrews 1:4
Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath inherited a more excellent name than they.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Ephesians 1:21Above all principality, and power, and virtue, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come.
Colossians 1:18And he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he may hold the primacy:
2 Thessalonians 1:7And to you who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, with the angels of his power:
Hebrews 2:9But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour: that, through the grace of God, he might taste death for all.
Revelation 5:11And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the living creatures, and the ancients; and the number of them was 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 →