Heb. 1:1–14. —The Highest of all Revelations given now in the Son of God, greater than the Angles—Who, having completed redemption, sits Enthroned at God’s Right Hand.
- sat down on the right hand ch. 4:14; 8:1; 10:12, Ps. 110:1, Mk. 16:19, Act. 2:33; 7:56. Rom. 8:34. Eph. 1:20–22, 1Pet. 3:22, Re. 3:21. “It is brought in here to emphasize and magnify the exaltation of the Savior—elevated to the highest possible dignity and position. The “right hand” speaks of power (Ex. 15:6), and honor (1 Kings 2:19). “On high” is, in the Greek, a compound word, …it signifies, “the highest height,” the most elevated exaltation position. Thus, we are shown that the highest seat in the universe now belongs to Him who once had not where to lay His head.” Pink Arthur W. “This sitting of the Son at God’s right hand was by the act of the Father (ch. 8:1; Eph. 1:20): it never expresses His pre-existing state co-equal with the Father, but always His exalted state as Son of man after His sufferings. Brown, David, Fausset A. R. Mediator 1Tim. 2:4 for man in the presence of God (Rom. 8:34), intercessor Heb. 7:25, advocate 1Jn. 2:1-2, surety 7:22, and High priest 7:21: a relation towards God and us about to end when its object shall have been accomplished (1 Cor. 15:28).
- of the Majesty on high 1Chr. 29:11, Job 37:22, Mic. 5:4, 2Pey. 1:16, Jude 25. He declared, “It is finished” (John 19:30). In proof of this, He is now seated on High. The term “the Majesty on high” refers to God Himself. “Majesty” signifies such greatness as makes one to be honored of all and preferred above all. Hence it is a delegated title, proper to kings, cf. 2 Peter 1:16. In our passage it denotes God’s supreme sovereignty. Pink Arthur W.
- ‘Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.’
- There is now a Man in the glory. And it is this Man, the “second Man (1 Cor. 15:47) who has been made better than the angels,” and who has obtained “a more excellent name than they.” “3ways Jesus obtained His great name. By birth Matt. 1:21, By inheritance Heb 1:4, By achievement Phil 2:5-11. See also Eph. 1:21, Col. 1:18; 2:10, 2Th. 1:7. 1Pe. 3:22, Rev. 5:11, 12.
- “Angel, Summary: Angel, “messenger,” is used of God, of men, and of an order of created spiritual beings whose chief attributes are strength and wisdom (2Sam. 14:20; Psa. 103:20; 104:4). In the O.T. the expression “the angel of the Lord” (sometimes “of God”) usually implies the presence of Deity in angelic form (Gen. 16:1–13; 21:17–19; 22:11–16; 31:11–13; Ex. 3:2–4; Jud. 2:1; 6:12–16; 13:3–22). The word angel is used of men in Lk. 7:24; Jas. 2:25; Rev. 1:20; 2:1, 8, 12, 18; 3:1, 7, 14. In Rev. 8:3–5 Christ is evidently meant. Sometimes angel is used of the spirit of man (Mt. 18:10; Acts 12:15). Though angels are spirits (Psa. 104:4; Heb. 1:14), power is given them to become visible in the semblance of human form (Gen. 19:1, Ex. 3:2; Num. 22:22–31; Judg. 2:1; 6:11, 22; Mt. 1:20; Lk. 1:26; John 20:12; Acts 7:30; 12:7, 8. The word is always used in the masculine gender, though sex, in the human sense, is never ascribed to angels (Mt. 22:30; Mk. 12:25). …” C. I. Scofield. It continues.
