Hebrews 1:7

1:7 And he says ¹  of the angels, “He makes ²  his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,” ³ 

Hebrews 1:4

1:4 Thus he became ⁴  so far better than the angels as ⁵  he has inherited a name superior to theirs.

Hebrews 2:5

Exposition of Psalm 8: Jesus and the Destiny of Humanity

2:5 For he did not put the world to come, ⁶  about which we are speaking, ⁷  under the control of angels.

Hebrews 2:16

2:16 For surely his concern is not for angels, but he is concerned for Abraham’s descendants.

Hebrews 12:22

12:22 But you have come to Mount Zion, the city ⁸  of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the assembly

Hebrews 13:2

13:2 Do not neglect hospitality, because through it some have entertained angels without knowing it. ⁹ 

Hebrews 1:6

1:6 But when he again brings ¹⁰  his firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all the angels of God worship him!” ¹¹ 

Hebrews 2:2

2:2 For if the message spoken through angels ¹²  proved to be so firm that every violation ¹³  or disobedience received its just penalty,

Hebrews 1:13

1:13 But to which of the angels ¹⁴  has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? ¹⁵ 

Hebrews 2:7

2:7 You made him lower than the angels for a little while.

You crowned him with glory and honor. ¹⁶ 

Hebrews 1:5

The Son Is Superior to Angels

1:5 For to which of the angels did God ¹⁷  ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? ¹⁸  And in another place ¹⁹  he says, ²⁰  “I will be his father and he will be my son.” ²¹ 

Hebrews 2:9

2:9 but we see Jesus, who was made lower than the angels for a little while, ²²  now crowned with glory and honor because he suffered death, ²³  so that by God’s grace he would experience ²⁴  death on behalf of everyone.

[1:7]  ¹ sn The Greek correlative conjunctions μέν and δέ (men and de) emphasize the contrastive parallelism of vs. 7 (what God says about the angels) over against vv. 8-9 and vv. 10-12 (what God says about the son).

[1:7]  ² tn Grk “He who makes.”

[1:7]  ³ sn A quotation from Ps 104:4.

[1:4]  ⁴ tn Grk “having become.” This is part of the same sentence that extends from v. 1 through v. 4 in the Greek text.

[1:4]  ⁵ tn Most modern English translations attempt to make the comparison somewhat smoother by treating “name” as if it were the subject of the second element: “as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, CEV). However, the Son is the subject of both the first and second elements: “he became so far better”; “he has inherited a name.” The present translation maintains this parallelism even though it results in a somewhat more awkward rendering.

[2:5]  ⁷ sn The phrase the world to come means “the coming inhabited earth,” using the Greek term which describes the world of people and their civilizations.

[2:5]  ⁸ sn See the previous reference to the world in Heb 1:6.

[12:22]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “and the city”; the conjunction is omitted in translation since it seems to be functioning epexegetically – that is, explaining further what is meant by “Mount Zion.”

[13:2]  ¹³ sn This is a vague allusion to people described in scripture and extra-biblical literature and may include Abraham and Sarah (Gen 18:2-15), Lot (Gen 19:1-14), Gideon (Judg 6:11-18), Manoah (Judg 13:3-22), and possibly Tobit (Tob 12:1-20).

[1:6]  ¹⁶ tn Or “And again when he brings.” The translation adopted in the text looks forward to Christ’s second coming to earth. Some take “again” to introduce the quotation (as in 1:5) and understand this as Christ’s first coming, but this view does not fit well with Heb 2:7. Others understand it as his exaltation/ascension to heaven, but this takes the phrase “into the world” in an unlikely way.

[1:6]  ¹⁷ sn A quotation combining themes from Deut 32:43 and Ps 97:7.

[2:2]  ¹⁹ sn The message spoken through angels refers to the OT law, which according to Jewish tradition was mediated to Moses through angels (cf. Deut 33:2; Ps 68:17-18; Acts 7:38, 53; Gal 3:19; and Jub. 1:27, 29; Josephus, Ant. 15.5.3 [15.136]).

[2:2]  ²⁰ tn Grk “through angels became valid and every violation.”

[1:13]  ²² sn The parallel phrases to which of the angels in vv. 5 and 13 show the unity of this series of quotations (vv. 5-14) in revealing the superiority of the Son over angels (v. 4).

[1:13]  ²³ sn A quotation from Ps 110:1.

[2:7]  ²⁵ tc Several witnesses, many of them early and important (א A C D* P Ψ 0243 0278 33 1739 1881 al lat co), have at the end of v 7, “You have given him dominion over the works of your hands.” Other mss, not quite as impressive in weight, lack the words (Ì⁴⁶ B D² Ï). In spite of the impressive external evidence for the longer reading, it is most likely a scribal addition to conform the text of Hebrews to Ps 8:6 (8:7 LXX). Conformity of a NT quotation of the OT to the LXX was a routine scribal activity, and can hardly be in doubt here as to the cause of the longer reading.

[1:5]  ²⁸ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:5]  ²⁹ tn Grk “I have begotten you.”

[1:5]  ³⁰ tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.

[1:5]  ³¹ tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.

[1:5]  ³² tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”

[2:9]  ³¹ tn Or “who was made a little lower than the angels.”

[2:9]  ³² tn Grk “because of the suffering of death.”

[2:9]  ³³ tn Grk “would taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).