6But one in a certain place testified, saying, What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?
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What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? …
LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? …
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-9)The apostle, having made this serious application of the doctrine of the personal excellency of Christ above the angels, now returns to that pleasant subject again, and pursues it further (Heb. 2:5): For to the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak . I. Here the apostle lays down a negative proposition, including a positive one—That the state of the gospel-church…
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