Hebrews 1

1. His person: his person is amiable, he is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, all made up of love and beauty. He is the image of his Father (Hebrews 1:3). The express image of his person.

When he was on earth he lay in the manger, now he sits in the throne; then he was hated and scorned of men, now he is adored of angels; then his name was reproached, now God has given him a name above every name (Philippians 2:9). Then he came in the form of a servant, and as a…

2. He has his Insignia Regalia, his ensigns of royalty, Corona est insigne Regiae potestatis; His crown (Revelation 6:2), his sword (Psalm 45:3), Gird your sword upon your thigh. His scepter (Hebrews 1:8), A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom. 3. His escutch…

3. The angels are confined spirits, they cannot be in duobus locis simul, they are confined to a place: but God is an immense Spirit, and cannot be confined, being in all places at once. 4. The angels, though they are spirits, yet they are but ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14).…

The beasts of the field shall honor me. 2. Creatures above us glorify God: the angels are ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14). They are still waiting on God's throne, and bring some revenues of glory into the exchequer of heaven: then surely man should be much more studious of Go…

The adopted are God's treasure (Exodus 19:5), his jewels (Malachi 3:17), his firstborn (Hebrews 12:23). They have angels for their life-guard (Hebrews 1:14). They are of the blood-royal of heaven (1 John 3:9).

Men may act unjustly, because they are bribed or forced: God will not be bribed, because of his justice, he cannot be forced because of his power. He does justice out of love to justice, (Hebrews 1:8) You love righteousness. 4. Justice is the perfection of the divine nature.

Which is to come — His kingdom has no end. His crown has no successors (Hebrews 1:8): Your Throne, O God, is forever and ever. The doubling of the word ratifies the certainty of it, as the doubling of Pharaoh's dreams did.

Others may have more of the venison, but God's children have more of the blessing: Thus they are heirs to the things of this life. 2. They are heirs to the other world: heirs of salvation (Hebrews 1:14), [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], joint-heirs with Christ (Romans 8:17). They go…

2. He is coeternal with God the Father (Proverbs 8:23). I was from the beginning; for else there was a time when God was without a Son, and so he should be no Father: in fact, else there was a time when God was without his glory, for Christ is the brightness of his Father's glor…

You, his angels that do his commandments. If God send an angel to the Virgin Mary, he goes on God's errand; if he gives his angels a charge to minister for the saints they obey (Hebrews 1:14). It cannot stand with angelical obedience to leave the least iota of God's will unfulfi…

(2.) What should hinder the death of Christ to be a sacrifice, a proper sacrifice, and according to the nature, end, and use of sacrifices to have made atonement, and satisfaction for sin? (1.) It is expressly called so in the Scripture; wherein he is said to offer himself, to m…

Let us then nakedly attend to what the Scripture asserts in this matter, and that in the order of the books of it in some particular instances which at present occur to mind; as these that follow. Psalm 45:6, "Your throne O God is for ever and ever," applied to Christ (Hebrews 1…

But God has altered and changed them at sundry reasons, according to the counsel of his own will, so as he saw necessary for his own glory, and the edification of his Church. See (Genesis 2:16, 17; Genesis 17:10, 11; Exodus 12:3, 4, 5; Exodus 20; chapter 25:9; Hebrews 1:1; Hebre…

Qu. 5. Is there any farther alteration to be expected in, or of those institutions and ordinances of worship, which are revealed and appointed in the Gospel? Answ. No! The last complete revelation of the will of God being made by the Son, who is Lord of all, his commands and ins…

Q. How was he furnished with gifts and abilities for discharge of this office? A. As God never calls any to any office, but he gives them gifts requisite thereto: so Christ was furnished with all wisdom and knowledge, and other gifts of the Spirit, that might fully fit him for h…

Q. How is he King over all creatures? A. In sustaining and disposing of them all by his providence, as may be for his glory, and the good of the elect (Hebrews 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Proverbs 8:15-16; Isaiah 43:14-15). Q. And how is he King of the visible Church?

Q: Besides the Resurrection and ascension of Christ, what further degree is there of his exaltation? A. His sitting at the right hand of God (Psalm 110:1; Mark 16:19; Ephesians 1:20; Colossians 3:1; Hebrews 1:3, 13; and 8:1; and 10:12, 13). Q. What are we to understand by Christ…

The text answers; The worlds. The word signifies, in the original, ages: and so it is also taken, Hebrews 1:2. God made the worlds or ages by Christ.

Indeed all true believers before Christ were justified, and sanctified, and in soul received to glory before us; yet, perfected in soul and body both, they must not be before us: but we must all be perfected together. Now, his will herein he brings thus to pass; All must be perf…

Why was it such a privilege? Truly, our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ: so that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and saints, make up but one society, or family, where God will dwell, to comfort and solace them: the good angels their guard, to prote…

There could never more have been any Love, nor any duties of Love between Angels and Men, had not God restored all things by Jesus Christ. This is the only foundation of the whole ministry of Angels in Love (Hebrews 1:14). For men themselves, mutual enmity and hatred possessed t…

And this also is spoken by our Apostle with respect to the narration of Moses wherein mention is made neither of the one, nor of the other. And it belongs to his conformity to the Son of God, or that wherein he represented him; for as to his divine Person, the Lord Christ had ne…

His revelations from the foundation of the world were gradual and partial, increasing the light of the knowledge of his glory from age to age. But put them all together from the first promise, with all expositions of it, and additions to it, with prophecies of what should afterw…

And in this sense by the heavens, than which Christ is made higher, exalted above, the angels the sacred inhabitants of those heavenly places are intended. And this our Apostle in other places often insists upon, as a great manifestation of the glory of Christ: See (Ephesians 1:…

This the whole Scripture testifieth to, namely, a real communication of glory to Christ by the Father after his ascension which he had not before. See Luke 24:16; John 17:24; Acts 2:33; Acts 5:31; Romans 14:9; Ephesians 1:20, 21, 22, 23; Philippians 2:9, 10, 11; Hebrews 1:3; Cha…

And we must afterwards enquire when it was abrogated and ceased to oblige the Church. The New Covenant was declared and made known in the latter days (Hebrews 1:1), in the dispensation of the fulness of time (Ephesians 1:10). And it took date as a Covenant formally obliging the…

But now to testify that all things in heaven and earth, should be reconciled and brought under one Head (Ephesians 1:10), there was a representation of their ministry, in this great mystery of the Law and the Mercy-seat. Therefore they are ready to the ministry of the Church of…

It is a kingdom (Matthew 25:34; James 2:5). Salvation (Hebrews 1:14). The grace of life (1 Peter 3:7).

It denotes a concurrent operation, when one works with another. Nor does it always denote a subservient instrumental cause, but sometimes that which is principally efficient (John 1:5; Romans 11:34; Hebrews 1:2). So it does here; the eternal Spirit was not an inferior instrument…

And first that the father is Creator, it was never doubted: as for the second person the Son, that he is Creator, it is evident: All things are made by it, that is, by the Son, who is the substantial word of the father, and without it was made nothing that was made (John 1:3). A…

Jesus Christ is a rich heir (John 16:15). He is Lord of all (Galatians 4:1; Hebrews 1:2), and the saints are co-heirs, they go sharers with Christ. 9. God calls them the luminaries of the world: they give light by their precepts and example (Philippians 2:15).

My horses are as your horses, and my chariots as your chariots: God and all his confederates are in the league, or rather God and all his subjects: as a prince does not only contract for his person, but his subjects and estates. Angels are at peace with us; in stead of being ins…

Indeed they say that our sufferings in themselves considered do not purge and satisfy, but as they are made meritorious by the sufferings of Christ. But to this I oppose one text of Scripture: Hebrews 1:3, where it is said that Christ has purged our sins by himself — where the l…

And he says further that he counted all things — even after his conversion — loss to him that he might be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness which is of the law (Philippians 3:8). Again, Hebrews 1:3: Christ washed away our sins by himself — which last words exclud…

A king has many servants, but not every servant, only the chief of the nobility stand before him; so they are not angels of the meanest order and rank in Heaven, that are ordered to attend the lowest Christian. The Apostle makes no doubt of this (Hebrews 1:14): are they not all…

Sin, as to its condemning power, has no place in this state (Romans 8:1). All the sins of them that believe are expiated or done away, as to the guilt of them in the blood of Christ (Hebrews 1:2; 1 John 1:7). This branch of the dominion of Sin, which consists in its condemning p…

It is natural and reasonable to suppose, that the whole world should finally be given to Christ, as one whose right it is to reign, as the proper heir of him, who is originally the King of all nations, and the Possessor of heaven and earth. And the Scripture teaches us, that God…

Indeed, I greatly doubt whether they themselves understand what they would mean by archetypal theology. For our knowledge of God is not the express image of that infinite divine knowledge (which is proper to the Son alone as a partaker of the divine nature, Hebrews 1:3), so that…

On the other hand, held tightly by the consciousness of sin and by the sense of divine wrath and indignation, that is, of punitive justice, they were distracted by anxious care and various thoughts, and necessarily wavered to and fro in the greatest uncertainty. For if on the on…

By it "all who are born of God" are regenerated (1 Peter 1:23). And its author is holy, since He was none other than the most holy Son of God (Hebrews 1:1, 2; John 1:18). But what holiness is, and what is true or false, we cannot know unless taught by that word.

Concerning the various degrees and progress of supernatural revelation, or the new theology, we will speak briefly in the first place. The apostle alludes to all this doctrine in Hebrews 1:1. And since the primitive theology obtained degrees of corruption nearly equal to those,…

It is certain that some persons inserted several of these into the Greek text in those places where previously there was no trace of them, and from which they neither were nor could have been drawn. Let the words cited by the apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) —…

For the accomplishment of this most holy and most wise work, the only-begotten Son of God, appointed from eternity and promised from the foundation of the world, was sent in the fullness of time. This the apostle teaches us expressly at Hebrews 1:1–2: "God," he says, "having spo…

All confess that we cannot be renewed into the image of Christ except through Christ. He is the image of God (2 Corinthians 4:4); the image of God (Colossians 1:15); the radiance of glory and the exact imprint of His nature (Hebrews 1:3). The gospel, moreover, is the "image" of…

As namely that of (Isaiah 9:6): To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, the government shall be upon his shoulders, and his Name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, of whose Kingdom and Government there shall be…

A second place is that of (Philippians 2:6), Who being in the form of God, thought it no robbery (he did God no wrong) to be equal with God, he made himself of no reputation; and took on him the form of a servant, etc. Therefore God also has highly exalted him and given him a na…

4. They are called His seed, in respect of the portion which they get from Him; the Apostle says, that parents provide for their children; it is indeed eminently so here, believers come under His care, oversight, and tutelage; and as a man provides for his household, his childre…

For he had that prayer (John 17:20, 24), and he continues to have that same sympathy; His way on earth was always sinless, but now is glorious and majestic, suited to his glorified state; He continues to intercede according as he intended; and his actual willingness is a main pa…

Isaiah 33:17. Your eyes shall see the King in his beauty. Hebrews 1:3. Christ is the brightness of his Father's glory. The light of the Sun in the air is the accidental reflection of the Sun's beams; Christ is the substantial reflection of the Father's light and glory; for he is…