6And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.
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Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.
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)…
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