Danger of neglecting so Great Salvation, first spoken by Christ—To whom, not to Angels, the New Dispensation was subjected. Heb. 10
“There are two objections: How could Christ be superior to angels, seeing that He was Man? and, How could He possess a greater excellency than they, seeing that He had died? In meeting these objections appeal was first made to the 8th Psalm, which affirmed, in predictive language, that God has crowned “man” (redeemed man) with “honor and glory,” and that He has put “all things under his feet”; and in the exaltation of Jesus faith beholds the ground and guarantee, the proof and pledge, of the coming exaltation of all His people (v. 9)
11. he that. ch. 10:10, 14; 13:12, Jn. 17:19, all. ver. 14, Jn. 17:21, Act. 17:26, Gal. 4:4, he is. ch. 11:16, Mk. 8:38, Lk. 9:26, to call. Matt. 12:48–50; 25:40; 28:10, Jn. 20:17, Rom. 8:29. It was imperative that Christ should be made, for a season, “lower than the angels” if ever He was to have ground and cause to call us “brethren.” That is a title which presupposes a common state and standing; for this He must become “one” with them. In other words, the Redeemer must identify Himself with those He was to redeem. God to make the Captain of His people perfect through sufferings, even because He and they are “all of one.” Herein lies the equity of Christ’s sufferings. It was not that an innocent person was smitten in order that guilty ones might go free, for that would be the height of injustice, but that an innocent Person, voluntarily, out of love, identified Himself with trangressors, and so became answerable for their crimes. Therefore, “in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren” (Heb. 2:17). How this should endear Him to us” Pink Arthur W “For which cause. That is, because he is thus united with them, or has undertaken their redemption. He is not ashamed. But he is willing to be ranked with them, and to be regarded as one of their family.To call them brethren. To acknowledge himself as of the same family, and to speak of them as his brothers.”
12 I will. Ps. 22:22, 25. in. Ps. 40:10; 111:1, Jn. 18:20. Saying. This passage is found in Ps. 22:22I will declare thy name. I will make thee known. He performed this. In his parting prayer (John 17:6), he says, “I have manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world.” And again, ver. 26, “And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it.” It would have been easy to appeal to facts, and to have shown that the Redeemer used that term familiarly in addressing his disciples, (comp. Matt. 12:48, 49; 25:40; 28:10; Luke 8:21; John 20:17), but that would not have been pertinent to his object. It is full proof to us, however, that the prediction in the Psalm was literally fulfilled. In the midst of the church It shows that he was united with his church; that he was one of them Bernes, Albert, Frew, Robert I will. 2Sam. 22:3, Ps. 16:1; 18:2; 36:7, 8; 91:2, Is. 12:2; 50:7–9, Maty. 27:43. “And again, I will put My trust in Him” (v. 13). First, Psalm 22:22 is cited, in which Christ is heard addressing His redeemed as “brethren.” The Lord of glory had to be abased, come down to their level, become Man. Then, in the same passage, the Savior is heard “singing praise” unto God. This also views Him as incarnate, for only as Man could He sing praise unto God! Moreover, it is not as Lord over the church, but as One “in the midst” of it He is there viewed. Thus “all of one” Behold. Is. 8:18; 53:10 which Ge. 33:5; 48:9, Ps. 127:3, Jn. 10:29, 17:6–12. 1Co. 4:15.
