Hebrews 1:4

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

Noyes Bible

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 a brightness from his glory and an image of his being, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself accomplished a cleansing of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

5For to which of the angels did he ever say: “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 rule, and authority, and power, 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; since he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he may be in all things pre-eminent;

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to you the distressed rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be manifested from heaven, with the angels of his might,

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

Revelation 5:11And I saw, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures 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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