Danger of neglecting so Great Salvation, first spoken by Christ—To whom, not to Angels, the New Dispensation was subjected. Heb. 2:14-15
“Though as God he pre-existed from all eternity, yet in the fulness of time he took our nature into union with his divine nature and became really and truly man. He did not lay hold of angels, but he laid hold of the seed of Abraham. The angels fell, and he let them go, and lie under the desert, defilement, and dominion of their sin, without hope or help. Christ never designed to be the Saviour of the fallen angels; as their tree fell, so it lies, and must lie to eternity, and therefore he did not assume their nature. Now Christ resolving to recover the seed of Abraham and raise them up from their fallen state, he took upon him that the same nature that had sinned might suffer, to restore human nature to a state of hope and…of mercy, to a state of special favour and salvation” M. Henry
14 Forasmuch then. Since, or because. As the children. Those who were to become the adopted children of God; or who were to sustain that relation to him. Are partakers of flesh and blood. Have a human and not an angelic nature. Since they are men, he became a man. There was a fitness or propriety that he should partake of their nature; 1Cor. 15:50; Matt. 16:17, ver. 18; ch. 4:15, Gen. 3:15, Jn. 1:14, Rom. 8:3, Gal. 4:4, Phi. 2:7, 8, 1Tim. 3:16. “That through death. By dying. It is implied here (1) that the work which he undertook of destroying him that had the power of death, was to be accomplished by his own dying; and (2) that to this, it was necessary that he should be a man. He assumed a form in which he could die—that of a man.” Barnes Albert, Frew, Robert Is. 53:12, Jn. 12:24, 31–33, Rom. 14:9. Col. 2:15, Rev. 1:18, He might destroy. That he might subdue, or that he might overcome him, and destroy his dominion. The word destroy in the sense of bringing into subjection, or crushing his power. This is the work which the Lord Jesus came to perform—to destroy the kingdom of Satan in the world, and to set up another kingdom in its place. This was understood by Satan to be his object: Matt. 8:29; Mark 1:24. Is. 25:8, Ho. 13:14, 1Cor. 15:54, 55, 2Tim. 1:10. That had the power of death. I understand this as meaning that the devil was the cause of death in this world…Death was a part of his dominion; he introduced it, and also made it terrible. Matt. 25:41, 1Jn. 3:8–10, Rev. 2:10; 12:9; 20:2. And deliver them. Job. 33:21–28, Ps. 33:19; 56:13; 89:48, Lk. 1:74, 75, 2Cor. 1:10. The way is open for all. “This deliverance relates (1.) to the dread of death. He came to free them from that. (2.) From death itself—that is, ultimately to bring them to a world where death shall be unknown. The dread of death is taken away, or they are delivered from that, because (a) the cause of that dread—to wit, sin, is removed; 1Cor. 15:54, 55. (b) Because they are enabled to look to the world beyond with triumphant joy. Physical death conducts them to heaven. Who through. The fear of death Job 18:11, 14; 24:17, Ps. 55:4; 73:19, 1Cor. 15:50–57. Are subject to bondage. Ro. 8:15, 21, Gal. 4:21, 2Tim. 1:7. All men have, by nature, this dread of dying. There is the dread (1.) of the dying pang, or pain. (2.) Of the darkness and gloom of mind that attends it. (3.) Of the unknown world beyond—the “evil that we know not of.” (4.) Of the loneliness, and darkness of the grave. (5.) Of the condemnation which awaits the guilty—the apprehension of the future.” Bernes, Albert, Frew, Robert.
