Hebrews 1:5
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, jThou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, kI will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?
τίνι γὰρ εἶπέ ποτε τῶν ἀγγέλων, Υἱός μου εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε; καὶ πάλιν, Ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτῷ εἰς πατέρα, καὶ αὐτὸς ἔσται μοι εἰς υἱόν;
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Psalms 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
Acts 13:33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.
Hebrews 5:5 So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.
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2 Samuel 7:14 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
1 Chronicles 22:10 He shall build an house for my name; and he shall be my son, and I will be his father; and I will establish the throne of his kingdom over Israel for ever.
Psalms 89:25 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers.
Psalms 89:26 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
The apostle here proves that Christ hath a more excellent name, and pre-eminency over angels, by Scripture texts owned by these Hebrews. He had the name of Son of God, and so had not angels; for God the Father, who hath absolute power to give and state all excellency, never said to any angel, so as to constitute him his only Son by an ordinance or word of power.
he may style them, as Job 2:1 Psa 89:6; as he doth members of his church, Gen 6:2, and princes and magistrates, Psa 82:1,6; but always in the plural number, as he doth the angels, Job 38:7, noting out their power, place, and ministry. But Son is singular to Christ, and incommunicable to any other.
this is quoted out of Psa 2:7.
Thou God-man, thou thyself, thou, and thou alone, (that this was spoken of Christ truly, and of David only as a type of him, the Spirit asserts, Act 13:33), art my own Son, my ever-being Son, my Son by nature, Rom 8:32. Singularity sets out his eminency above all, and his propriety by nature in him.
at the day of his incarnation, Isa 9:6 Luk 1:31,32,35, but eminently at the day of his resurrection, was he declared and published to be his only begotten Son with power, Rom 1:4; and at his ascension inangurated the supreme, universal King and Priest in heaven and earth, Heb 5:5, possessed of a better name, place, and power than angels, Eph 1:20,21. What men enjoy in this kind attributed to them, is with a vast disproportion to this; born, or begotten, they are said to be, in respect of God’s operation on them, infusing Divine qualities into their souls, but this Son by a generation proper to a substantial person.
in another Scripture, as 2Sa 7:14 1Ch 17:13 22:10, it is declared, I his natural Father, and he my natural Son; so as they are not related to any other as they are to each other. This in the type was spoken of Solomon, but fulfilled in Christ, who was universal King and Priest over his church for ever; so David understood it, Psa 110:1; compare Psa 89:19,26-29. He was the first-born Son, born a King; the Son of the universal and supreme King, the Heir and Lord of all.