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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 2:2-3

"The word spoken through angels" refers to the Mosaic Covenant (cf. Deuteronomy 33:2 LXX; Acts 7:53; Galatians 3:19). [Note: See Moffatt, p. 18.] For the Jews, it was the Law under which they lived. For them the will of God was unalterable. It required obedience. Under the Old (Mosaic) Covenant the connection between sin and punishment was clear and direct. Even more so, the readers could count on the New Covenant that had come, not through angels, but through God’s Son, to involve punishment... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 2:3-4

Jesus Christ spoke of salvation during His earthly ministry (e.g., Matthew 4:17; Matthew 19:28; Luke 12:31-32; Luke 22:29-30). The apostles taught the same truth and by doing so confirmed His word. This is the gospel, in its widest meaning."By speaking of ’the hearers’ (ton akousanton), all interest is concentrated on the message, not the office, of those who had brought the word of redemption to the community . . ." [Note: Lane, p. 39.] God testified to His approval of Christ’s preaching and... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 2:2

2:2 was (q-10) That is, was so when given; all is in the aorist here, or a truth as to the past. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 2:3

2:3 of (r-10) Not merely neglected when presented, but not cared for when, as here, they were nominally inside making profession. As Matthew 22:5 . 'They made light of' the invitation to the supper. 1 Timothy 4:14 . 'negligent' of the gift in him. he had it. Hebrews 8:9 . Israel was disobedient, and Jehovah 'did not regard them.' read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1-18

Jesus Exalted in Humiliation1-4. The former dispensation, even though mediated by comparatively inferior beings such as the angels, was yet so sacred that all neglect of it was severely punished. This being so, a far more terrible fate must now be theirs who neglect the revelation brought by the Son of God Himself, delivered to us by eye-witnesses, and authenticated by miracles and gifts of the Holy Ghost.1. Let them slip] RV ’drift away from them,’ as a ship from its moorings. This was what... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:1-4

II.(1-4) These verses must be closely joined with the first chapter. Before advancing to the next step in his argument, the writer pauses to enforce the duty which results from what has been already established. But (as in Hebrews 4:14-16) the exhortation does not interrupt the thought, but rather serves as a connecting link. (See Note on Hebrews 2:5.) read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:2

(2) The word spoken by angels.—Or rather, through angels (comp. Hebrews 1:2): the word was God’s, but angels were the medium through which it was given to men. In accordance with the tone of the whole passage (in which the thought is not the reward of obedience, but the peril of neglect of duty), “the word” must denote divine commands delivered by angels, and—as the close parallel presented by Hebrews 10:28-29, seems to prove—especially the commands of the Mosaic law. Hence this verse must be... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:3

(3) How shall we escape?—In a different context these words might naturally mean, “How shall we, transgressors of the law, escape from the penalty it threatens, if we neglect the one means of deliverance now offered us?” (Comp. Galatians 3:13; Galatians 4:5.) Here, however, are placed in contrast the command and threatening which came through angels and the salvation “spoken through the Lord”; while the one “word” is thus wholly unlike the other in substance and in form of proclamation, each is... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 2:1-18

Hebrews 2:1 There is nothing I so hardly beleeve to be in man as constancie, and nothing so easie to be found in him, as inconstancy.... Our ordinary manner is to follow the inclination of our appetite this way and that way, on the left or on the right hand; upward and downe-ward, according as the winde of occasions doth transport us; we never thinke on what we would have, but at the instant we would have it: and change as that beast that takes the colour of the place wherein it is laid. What... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-18

CHAPTER IITHE SON AND THE ANGELSHebrews 1:4 - Hebrews 2:18The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of emanations. The persistence of this error lay in its affinity with the Christian conception of mediation between God and men; its danger sprang from its complete inconsistency with the Christian idea of the person and work of the Mediator. For the Hebrew conception of God, as the "I AM," tended more and more in... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 2:2-3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 2:3-4

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 2:2

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 2:3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1-18

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:1-4

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:2

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 2:3

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 2:1-18

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-18

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