Hebrews 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

Hebrews 1:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 1:21
Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Philippians 2:9-11
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: …
1 Peter 3:22
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
Hebrews 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
Revelation 5:11-12
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; …

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Angel (a Spirit)

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-14)

The apostle, having proved the pre-eminence of the gospel above the law from the pre-eminence of the Lord Jesus Christ above the prophets, now proceeds to show that he is much superior not only to the prophets, but to the angels themselves. In this he obviates an objection that the Jewish zealots would be ready to make, that the law was not only delivered by men, but ordained by angels (Gal. 3:19)…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. Being made ... better--by His exaltation by the Father (He 1:3, 13): in contrast to His being “made lower than the angels” (He 2:9). “Better,” that is, superior to. As “being” (He 1:3) expresses His essential being so “being made” (He 7:26) marks what He became in His assumed manhood (Php 2:6-9). Paul shows that His humbled form (at which the Jews might stumble) is no objection to His divine Me…