hebrews-1:1-3,-exodus-20:4-6-niv

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 1:3

Verse 3 3.Who being the brightness of his glory, etc. These things are said of Christ partly as to his divine essence, and partly as a partaker of our flesh. When he is calledthe brightness of his glory and the impress of his substance, his divinity is referred to; the other things appertain in a measure to his human nature. The whole, however, is stated in order to set forth the dignity of Christ. But it is for the same reason that the Son is said to be “the brightness of his glory”, and “the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1

Retaining the order of the words in the original, we may translate, In many portions, and in many modes of old God having spoken to the fathers in the prophets . πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως —not a mere alliterative redundancy, denoting variously : — the writer's usual choice use of words forbids this supposition. Nor is the μερῶς of the first adverb to be taken (as in the A.V) to denote portions of time : —this is not the proper meaning of the compound. Nor (for the same... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1

God speaking to men. I. THE GENERAL TRUTH THAT GOD SPEAKS TO MEN . The possibility is assumed of such a communication from God to men. Nothing less can be meant than this—that even as one man can clearly make known the thoughts and wishes that are in him to another, so God can communicate his thoughts and wishes to a being with a nature like man. It is quite allowable to say that a voice of God speaks forth from the things he has made, just as a voice speaks forth from... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

The two revelations In this sublime exordium, which strikes the keynote of his doctrinal teaching, the writer takes for granted: 1. The inspiration of the Scriptures. " God hath spoken." How awful this truth, yet how blessed! With what a clear ringing note of certainty the author assumes it! The Scriptures put forth no theory of inspiration, but they everywhere claim to declare the mind and will of God. 2. The interdependence of the two revelations. It is the same God who has... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

God's revelation of redemptive truth to man "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners," etc. God has spoken to man. A very significant fact. It suggests the Divine interest in his human creatures. It teaches that man is capable of receiving communications from the infinite Mind. tie can understand, appreciate, and appropriate to his unspeakable advantage the thoughts of God concerning him. He is under obligations to do so. Man's attitude towards the communications of God should be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

The two Testaments a progressive revelation of God. These verses form the keynote of the Epistle. The Hebrew Christians were being cast out from Jewish worship and fellowship. To be excluded from the temple, the center of national unity, the home of the people to whom pertained "the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises, and the fathers," was to be reduced to the level of the uncovenanted Gentiles. The writer... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-3

Christ as Prophet of the Church. This Epistle was written to those Jewish Christians who were in danger of relapsing from their profession of faith in Jesus and returning to the sacrifices and ceremonies of the Jewish Law. If we consider that they had been brought up in the acknowledgment of the Mosaic rites as being of Divine origin, with the power of early impressions; that it was a vast step from Moses to the simple and spiritual system of the gospel; that there were many forms of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-4

EXORDIUM intimating in a succession of choice and pregnant phrases, the drift of the Epistle; a condensed summary of the coming argument. It briefly anticipates the views to be set forth in the sequel, of the revelation of God in Christ excelling far, and being destined to supersede, all that had preceded it, as being the ultimate Divine manifestation in the SON , according to the full meaning of the term involved in ancient prophecy;—of the eternal Divinity of him who was thus... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:2

In these last days . The true reading being ἐπ ἐσχάτον τῶν ἡμερῶν τούτων , not ἐπ ἐσχάτων , as in the Textus Receptus, translate, at the end of these days', The Received Text would, indeed, give the same meaning, the position of the article denoting' "the lustier these days," not "these last days." The reference appears to be to the common rabbinical division of time into αἰὼν οὖτος , and αἰὼν μέλλων , or ἐρχόμενος : the former denoting the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:2

Jesus Inheritor of all things. One position suggests another. The idea of sonship naturally leads on to the idea of inheritance. Among the Israelites especially would this be so, for inheritance is much spoken of in the Old. Testament. The son looks forward to inherit and control the father's possessions. Thus, while the individual cannot defy death, the race can in a modified kind of way. And so this passion of man for transmitting his property to his posterity is here used to begin that... read more

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 1:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-2

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-3

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:2

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 1:2

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