Bible Commentaries
Commentary by J.C.Philpot on select texts of the Bible
Hebrews 1
Hebrews 1:4
"Being made so much better than the angels, as he has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they." Hebrews 1:4
Christ was made so much better than the angels, not as the Son of God, because as that he was better than they already, being, indeed, their Maker and Creator. Nor did he become God's Son by being appointed heir of all things," and "obtaining by inheritance a more excellent name" than all the angelic host. If I have an only Matthew 28:18); and that the Father has "set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, far 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" ( Ephesians 1:20-21).
But he has all this pre-eminence and glory not to make him the Son of God, but because he who, as the Son of God, "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a Philippians 2:6-11). The joy of heaven above, the delight of the saints here below, their only hope and help, strength and wisdom, spring from this, that the Son of God is exalted to the right hand of the Father in the very nature which he assumed in the womb of the virgin.
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