Hebrews 1:4

having become so much superior to the angels, as he has inherited a more excellent name than they.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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 brightness of his glory and the impress of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself[1:3] made a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

5For to whom of the angels said he ever: Thou art my Son, I this day have 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 1:21far above all principality, and power, and might, 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 first-born from the dead; that he may become in all things pre-eminent.

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

Hebrews 2:9But we behold him, who was made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, on account of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, in order that he by the grace of God might taste death for every one.

Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard a voice of many angels, around the throne and the animals and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, 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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