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Hebrews 1:4

having become as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

Text-Critical English NT

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

3He is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his nature, sustaining all things by his powerful word. When he had made purification for our sins by giving his own life, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in high places,

5For to which of the angels did God ever say, “Yoʋ are my Son; today I have begotten yoʋ”? Or again, “I will be his Father, and he will be my Son”?

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Cross References

Ephesians 1:21far above every ruler and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the age to come.

Colossians 1:18He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that in everything he may be preeminent.

2 Thessalonians 1:7and to give relief to you who are being afflicted, and to us as well, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels.

Hebrews 2:9But we do see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone.

Revelation 5:11Then I looked, and I heard something like the voice of many angels surrounding the throne, the living creatures, and the elders. Their number 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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