Hebrews 1:4

made as much superior to the angels, as he hath inherited a more distinguished name than they.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

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 splendour of his glory, and the very impress of his substance, and upholding all things with his powerful word, by himself having effected the cleansing of our sins, he sat down at the right hand of Majesty on high;

5For to which of the angels ever said he, “My Son art thou, I have to-day 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 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; he is the beginning, the first begotten from the dead, that he might be in all things pre-eminent.

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

Hebrews 2:9But we see Jesus for a little while made lower than angels, by the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour, that, by the grace of God, he might taste of death for every one.

Revelation 5:11And I looked, and heard the voice of many angels around the throne, and the living beings, and the presbyters, and 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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