Hebrews 2

We must enter into glory as Christ did; first he suffered shame and death, and now is exalted to sit at God's right hand. 2. Use of Comfort: Branch 1. Christ being so highly exalted, has ennobled our nature, he has crowned it with glory, and lifted it up above angels and archang…

If he would come to any, why not to the angels that fell? (Hebrews 2:16) He in no wise took upon him the nature of angels. The angels are of a more noble lineage, more intelligible creatures, more able for service; but behold the love of Christ, he came not to the fallen angels,…

Holiness is one of the precious stones which shines on the breastplate of our High Priest. 2. He is faithful (Hebrews 2:17). It behooved him to be like to his brothers, that he might be a faithful High Priest.

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 God's glory than the angels, for God has h…

5. That God should take great numbers out of the Devil's family and adopt them into the family of Heaven. Christ is said to bring many sons to glory (Hebrews 2:10). Men adopt usually but one heir, but God is resolved to increase his family, he brings many sons to glory.

As a nobleman is distinguished from another by his silver star; as a virtuous woman is distinguished from a harlot by her chastity; so holiness distinguishes between the two seeds. All that are of God, as they have Christ for their captain (Hebrews 2:10), so holiness is the whit…

Quest. 4. How does Faith make God to be our Father? Resp. As Faith is a uniting grace; by Faith we have coalition and union with Christ, and so the kindred comes in; being united to Christ the natural Son, we become adopted sons: God is the Father of Christ; Faith makes us Chris…

6. Be not only attentive in hearing, but retentive after hearing. Hebrews 2:1. We ought to give the more diligent heed to the things we have heard, lest at any time we let them slip. [illegible], lest we let them run out as water out of a sieve.

Christ is the wonder of beauty (Psalm 45:2): Fairer than the children of men; is there anything in beauty to offend? Christ is a mirror of mercy (Hebrews 2:17); why should mercy offend any? Christ is a Redeemer; why should a captive slave be offended at him who comes with a sum…

2. Christ's succor in temptation; as the good Samaritan first had compassion on the wounded man, there was sympathy, then he poured in wine and oil, there was succor (Luke 10:34). So when we are wounded by the Red Dragon, Christ is first touched with compassion, and then he pour…

It remains therefore, that we consider, (1.) how this is revealed and affirmed in the Scripture: and (2.) what is the true meaning of the expressions and propositions wherein it is revealed and affirmed; for in them, as in sundry others, we affirm, that the satisfaction pleaded…

And this also is the substance of what we believe in this matter; namely, that Christ is God, manifest in the flesh, which we acknowledge, own, and believe to be true, but a great mystery; yet no less great and sacred a truth notwithstanding. Hebrews 2:14. For as much then as th…

As, 1. That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins, and that in his death and sufferings (Isaiah 53:10): "When you shall make his soul an offering for sin" (John 1:29): "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Ephesians 5:2):…

For as if he had been a mere human person he could not have sustained the place of a surety for us, so except he had taken our human nature, he could not have done the work of a surety upon our account. Paul therefore puts a great deal of weight upon this consideration (Hebrews…

The principles of mutual, spiritual love among believers, arise from their relation to one Father (Matthew 23:9): "One is your Father which is in Heaven," who gives to all them that believe in Christ, power to become the sons of God (John 1:12). And their being all children of t…

Q. Why then is not the human nature in Christ a distinct person? A. Because it never had subsisting and being of itself, but in the person of the Son of God being assumed to it from the first moment of its being (Hebrews 2:16). Q. If both the human and divine nature be in Christ…

Q. Is Christ also a Priest? A. Yes, and is frequently so called (Psalms 110:4; Hebrews 2:17; 3:1; 4:14, 15; 5:5, 6, 10; 8:1; 9:11). Q. Was he a Priest after the order of Aaron?

And as a son of consolation and child of light is enabled to comfort others the more by the comfort with which he himself has been comforted of God, so this Prince of Darkness is the more powerful to terrify weak consciences that are ensnared with the cords of their own sins, by…

We are a middle sort of creatures between them and beasts — beasts being merely corporeal, they merely spiritual, man between both. He made us 'a little inferior to the angels' (Hebrews 2), though but a little, yet inferior; and in respect of that inferiority we are exposed to t…

There is nothing more evident than that all true believers, and all those who upon their profession are presumed so to be, are in the New Testament styled Saints. For [in non-Latin alphabet] are the same with [in non-Latin alphabet] (Romans 1:7), [in non-Latin alphabet] (Hebrews…

This is frequently mentioned as an especial privilege and advantage of the Gospel-state (Ephesians 3:12; Hebrews 3:6; Chap. 4:16; Chap. 10:19, 35; 1 John 3:21; Chap. 4:17; Chap. 5:14). And on the contrary, the state under the Levitical Priesthood is described as a state of fear…

Yet this exaltation and glory of Christ in his humane nature is not only absolutely above, but also of another kind, than the utmost of what any other created being either has, or is capable of. It is more than any other creature is capable of, because it is founded in the union…

God is a God to him in all the Promises he received on the behalf of his mystical Body; and he was his Servant in the accomplishment of them, as the pleasure of the Lord was to prosper in his hand. God being in this Covenant a God and Father to Christ, he became by virtue thereo…

But the Lord Christ is the only [illegible], or propitiation under the New Testament (Romans 3:25; 1 John 2:2). And he died, [illegible], to propitiate God for sin; to render him propitious to sinners (Hebrews 2:17). In him alone God is [illegible], merciful to our sins.

Hence the People was in a sense put in subjection to Angels, and they had an authoritative ministry in that Covenant. The Church that then was, was put into some kind of subjection to Angels, as the Apostle plainly intimates (Hebrews 2:5). Hence the worshipping or adoration of A…

(4) The external cause, by the application of all other causes to the souls and consciences of men, is Satan. His was the power of darkness, his the power of death over men in that state and condition; that is, to make application of the terror of it to their souls, as threatene…

But they have lost the understanding of their own tradition. This belonged to the bondage under which it was the will of God to keep that people, that they should dread death as an effect of the curse of the law, and the fruit of sin, which is taken away in Christ (Hebrews 2:14;…

(1) As that which the holiness of God required, and which therefore in his wisdom and grace he appointed. (2) As that which in itself was meet and becoming the righteousness of God (Hebrews 2:10). Nothing but the sacrifice of Christ, with the everlasting efficacy of his most pre…

This was wanting under the Old Testament, and therefore the faith of men might oft-times be greatly shaken about it. For whereas death seized on all men, and that penally in the execution of the sentence of the Law, from where they were for fear of it, obnoxious to bondage all t…

For to these two persons alone was the promise confirmed. And therefore is he said in one place to be the seed of David according to the flesh (Romans 1:3), and in another, to have taken on him the seed of Abraham (Hebrews 2:16). Herein lay Abraham's peculiar interest in the spi…

(2) A refusal of all such ways of atonement, satisfaction, and reconciliation that might be offered from any thing, that all or any creatures could perform; sacrifice and offerings, and whole burnt-offerings for sin he would not have (Hebrews 10:5, 6), he rejected them as insuff…

And he does so to us, that is, not to us only who preach and teach those things, not to the Apostles and other Christian teachers of the Gospel; but to all of us of the Church of Israel, who acknowledge the truth of the Scriptures, and own them as the rule of our faith and obedi…

Moreover, it is from the aggravations that it is accompanied withal, from the nature of the thing itself, and the way whereby it is proposed to us. How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation? (Hebrews 2:3). We may look only on that which lies before us; namely, the inf…

He was to be the Priest himself, the Sacrificer himself, to dedicate, consecrate, and sanctify himself by his own sacrifice, in concurrence with the actings of God the Father in his suffering. See John 17:19; Hebrews 2:10; chapter 5, 7, 9; chapter 9, 11, 12. That precious blood…

For his sacrifice they suppose to be metaphorically only so called, consisting in the representation of himself to God in Heaven, after his obedience and suffering. Therefore they say that by the World which he came into, the World to come mentioned (Hebrews 2:5) is intended. Bu…

(2.) The promise was confirmed to him by an oath, which it had not been to any before. (3.) The promised seed was in it peculiarly confined to his family or posterity; See (Hebrews 2:17). (4.) His receiving of the promise was that which was the foundation of the church in his po…

But I must not too far digress. The command of God, the love and care of Christ towards his Church, the ends of God's patience and long-suffering, the future manifestation of his glory in the salvation of believers and the condemnation of those that are disobedient, the necessit…

And further whereas Christ beside our nature took our infirmities also, it is a wonderful comfort to God's church: for it shows, that he is not only a Savior, but also a very compassionate and pitiful Savior. As the Holy Ghost says, in all things it became Christ to be like to h…

I answer, partly by neglecting the offers of it, when you make God speak in vain (2 Corinthians 6:2). 'Tis a great affront we put upon God, to despise him, when he speaketh to us in the still voice, and all the woings and pleading of mercy do not move to look after our salvation…

Come on now, and see whether verse 22 makes any whit more for him: "He has put all things under his feet;" that is, says Zanchius, all things but the Church, which is his Body. But this must be meant in respect of the decree and foreknowledge of God, as Hierome expounds the plac…

What there is said of salvation in the whole, is here of that particular salvation of a separate soul. You have the like emphasis put (Hebrews 2:10) of bringing many sons to glory [it became him] says the text. Now put all together, and the result is:

For instance; in giving an account, why God in bringing many sons to glory, did choose to effect it by Christ's death, rather than any other way. It became him (says he) (Hebrews 2:10). For whom are all things, and by whom are all things, etc. And so in the point of the resurrec…

3. Christ has the government of them to this end for his Church. Angels are all put in subjection to him (Hebrews 2:7-8): In that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. He is exalted above all principality and power, God has put all things…

There are few believers but have found it so, at least in their own apprehensions; they have been ready to say at one time or another, we shall one day fall by the hand of this enemy; and have been forced to cry out to Jesus Christ for help and succour with no less vehemency tha…

They were to be dethroned or destroyed by an act of power. Both the Devil, and sin, which is his work, are to be destroyed not appeased (Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8). But the strength of sin is the law (1 Corinthians 15:56), that is, through the righteous sentence of God, we were h…

For teleioun means to consecrate and to initiate; hence among the ancients, baptism also is called teleiosis (consecration). The Septuagint employs the word for consecration or dedication (Exodus 29, "to fill the hands of them," verses 33 and 35); nor does the term appear to be…

These things he says in his own manner, splendidly, elegantly, and magnificently. IX. But since the paths to true happiness were thoroughly unknown, although they ranked the good far above the wicked, yet they assigned to the best an uncertain and almost wretched condition in th…

Theology corrupted by degrees, restored by degrees — Theology in the abstract, divine doctrine — The degrees of revelations — The origin of supernatural theology — The first degree in the promise of the seed of the woman — In that promise a new covenant given, entered into, and…

By the Syriac paraphrast, however, the name is taken two or three times in a good sense for the priests of God. And in the Epistle to the Heb. 2:17, Christ Himself is called by that name. Most scholars think the priests of Baal were called by this name from the black or dark gar…

For exposing the nature, guilt, and baseness of sin in the inmost recesses of the soul, and moreover recalling to the sinner's mind the multitude of sins of which he himself is conscious, and the innumerable circumstances of sins that accumulate guilt, He denounces upon him the…