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Chapter 1 of Hebrews
  1. In many times and in many ways long ago, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets,
  2. in these last days He has spoken to us through the Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom He made the worlds.
  3. Who, being the splendor of His glory, and the image of His substance, sustaining all things by His powerful word, A when He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High;
  4. By becoming much greater than the angels, He has inherited a more superior name than they.
  5. For to which of the angels did He ever say, ‘You are my Son, today I have begotten you1***.’***** And again, ‘I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be a Son2*****.’***
  6. And again, whenever He brings the firstborn into the world, He says, ‘And let all the angels of God worship Him3***.’***
  7. And of the angels indeed He says, ‘He makes His angels spirits, and His servants a flame of fire4***.’***
***8) ***But of the Son, ‘Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, and the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your B kingdom.
  1. You loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, anointed you with oil of gladness above your companions5***.’***
***10) ***And, ‘You at the beginning, Lord, you established the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands,

***11) ***They will perish, but you shall remain, and all will become old as does a garment,
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                 ***And you will roll them up as a coat, and as a garment they will be changed.  But you are the same, and your years will not cease******6******.’***
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                 But to which of the angels has He ever said, ***‘Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies the footstool of your feet******7******?’***
  3. Are they not all ministering spirits, being sent for service for those who shall inherit salvation?
 
**In these commentary notes I have supplied various notes of commentary of many of the verses. I have been using various sources in this much important interpretation of the Holy Scriptures. Though it is an ongoing search until I complete this project, I have been searching out the Early Church Fathers, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and other insights from pro-Catholic resources. **
Hebrews Commentary Notes
Verse 1-2: St. John of the Cross: “In giving us his Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word- and he has no more to say…because what he spoke before to the prophets in part, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and living with the desire for some other novelty.”

**[Catechism of the Catholic Church 65] **“Yet even if Revelation is already complete, it has not been made completely explicit; it remains for Christian faith gradually to grasp its full significance over the course of the centuries. Guided by the magisterium of the Church, the *sensus fidelium *(universal consent) knows how to discern and welcome in these revelations whatever constitutes an authentic call of Christ or his saints to the Church.

Christian faith cannot accept “revelations” that claim to surpass or correct the Revelation of which Christ is the fulfillment, as is the case in certain non-Christian religions and also in certain recent sects which base themselves on such “revelations.”

Verse 2:The Jerome Biblical Commentary: *’these last days’ *is regarded the final age as inaugurated by the Christ-event, pre-eminently by Jesus’ redemptive sacrifice, and he speaks of the Christians as those who have experienced ‘the powers of the coming age (Heb 6:5).’ ‘*the worlds’ (tous aionas) *The Greek word ‘aion’ can mean either ‘world’ or ‘age,’ but its use in 11:3 in connection with creation of the universe suggests ‘world’ here. Unless the plural should be regarded as lacking significance, there appears here the conception of a number of worlds, visible and invisible.”

St. John Chrysostom: “But he has used the name ‘Heir,’ declaring two things: His proper sonship and His indefeasible sovereignty. “Heir of all,” of all the world.
 
Verse 3: The Jerome Biblical Commentary: In verse 2 –3, the description of the Son as the mediator of creation assimilates him to personified Wisdom of the OT (Proverbs 8:30; Wisdom 7:22). ‘The splendor of His glory,’ (Wisdom 7:26). The *image *of His substance (Wisdom 7:26). ‘sustaining all things by His powerful word,’ just as ‘Wisdom reaches from end to end mightily and governs all things well.’ (Wisdom 8:1).

St. Thomas Aquinas:* ‘image of His substance’* “To signify the substance thus understood, the Greeks use the name ‘hypostasis.’ So, as we say, “Three persons,” they say “Three hyspostases.”

“He (Jesus) is the perfect Image of the Father.”

St. Augustine: “The Son alone is the Image of the Father.”

St. John Chrysostom: ‘*image of His substance’ “ *That is, just as He [The Father] is personally existing, being in need of nothing, as also the Son. For he says here, showing the similitude and peculiar image of the Prototype, that He [The Son] is in existence by Himself.” St. John Chrysostom: ‘sustaining all things by His powerful word’ “That we might for this reason infer not merely His being the express image of His Substance, but also His governing all things with absolute authority. See then, how he applies to the Son that which is proper to the Father. Behold how he goes on two paths by uttering lowly things, as, ‘He appointed Him,’ and then in another way he brings Him up again to absolute authority and declares Him to be of equal honor with the Father, so equal, that many thought Him to be the Father.”

**St. John Damascene: **‘He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on High’ “By the right hand we understand the glory and honor of divinity, where he who exists as Son of God before all ages, indeed as God, of one being with the Father, is seated bodily after he became incarnate and his flesh was glorified.”

Nicene Creed: “Being seated at the Fathers right hand signifies the inauguration of the Messiah’s kingdom, the fulfillment of the prophet Daniel’s vision concerning the Son of man (Dan 7:14).”

Verse 4: In the OT, ‘son of God’ is a title given to the angels, the Chosen People, the children of Israel, and their kings. It signifies an adoptive sonship that establishes a relationship of particular intimacy between God and his creature.

But, from the beginning this acknowledgment of Christ’s divine sonship will be the center of the apostolic faith, first professed by Peter as the Church’s foundation.
 
Verse 5: ‘*You are my Son, today I have begotten you’ *The first ecumenical council of Nicaea in 325 confessed in its Creed that the Son of God is “ begotten, not made, of the same substance as the Father.”

St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council at Ephesus in 431 confessed “that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.”

The Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Christ’s humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from His conception.”

Council of Chalcedon in 451: “He was begotten from the Father before all the ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God. We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division, or separation. The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person and one substance.” **The liturgy of St. John Chrysostom: “**O only begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified,”

Verse 7: **The Jerome Biblical Commentary: **“The LXX wording of Ps 104:4 furnishes the author a statement about the angels that serves to bring out their contrast with the Son. The meaning of the LXX text, quite different from that in the Hebrew Masoretic Text, fire, a conception found in 2 Esdras 8:21. The angels are changeable, non-permanent beings, unlike the Son, whose rule is everlasting.”

Verse 10: ‘es*tablished the earth’ ***Lateran Council IV in 1215: “**God creates freely out of nothing.”

St. Bonaventure: “God created all things not to increase his glory, but to show it forth and to communicate it.”
 
Verse 13: (St. Jerome on Psalm 110:1)’The Lord said to my Lord’-‘Sit at my right hand.’ In Hebrew, the first title of Lord is written in those characters that are reserved for God alone, but the second title of Lord is written with letters ordinarily respectful in polite address, as, for instance, a master is called lord by those who serve him, and as kings are called lords.

Understand, then, “The Lord said to my Lord’ to mean, to the Lord to whom is given the command to be seated. God does not sit; He who has assumed a human body sits; therefore, He who is told to be seated is man, the Incarnate Word.

Verse 14: ‘*ministering spirits, being sent for service for those who shall inherit salvation’ * Catechism of the Catholic Church 332] Angels have been present since creation and throughout the history of salvation, announcing this salvation from afar or near and serving the accomplishment of the divine plan: they closed the earthly paradise; protected Lot; saved Hagar and her child; stayed Abraham’s hand; communicated the law by their ministry; led the People of God; announced births and callings; and assisted the prophets, just to cite a few examples. Finally, the angel Gabriel announced the birth of the Precursor and that of Jesus himself.

Catechism of the Catholic Church 336]From its beginning until death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession (Mt 18:10; Lk 16:22; Ps 44:7; 91:10-13; Job 33:23-24; Zech 1:12; Tob 12:12). “Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life (St. Basil).” Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angel and men united in God.”

St. Thomas Aquinas: Commentary on the Sentences (13th cent.) “Angels execute the divine for human salvation: they are our guardians, who free us when hindered and help to bring us home.”

St. John Chrysostom: “What marvel if they minister to the Son, when they minister even to our salvation? See how he lifts up their minds, and shows the great honor which God has for us, since He has assigned to Angels who are above us this ministration on our behalf. As if one should say, for this purpose He employs them; this is the office of Angels, to minister to God for our salvation. So that it is an angelic work, to do for the salvation of the brethren; or rather it is the work of Christ Himself, for He indeed saves as Lord, but they as servants. And we, though servants are yet Angels’ fellow-servants. Why do you so earnestly gaze on the Angels (He says)? They are servants of the Son of God, and are sent many ways for our sakes, and minister to our salvation. And so they are partners in service with us. And consider how he ascribes no great difference to the kinds of creatures. And yet the space between angels and men is great; nevertheless he brings them down near to us, all but saying, for us they labor, or our sake they run to and fro: on us, as one might say, they wait. This is their ministry, for our sake to be sent every way.”
 
**I have chosen to do an extensive work for the footnotes and cross references. In many cross references of the OT and NT in many Bibles I have found that even some of the best versions have lacked in being exhaustive. In places where the NT author quoted the OT, some versions listed specific sources such as LXX as the ancient source, but were not consistant. I have found that the LXX is quoted many more times then what most version mention. For most Bible readers this may not be any concern, but for a textual critic it is. And also for those who see the quote in the NT and then happen to look at the OT quote in their Bibles they may be alarmed to find that the two readings do not match up exactly, so being informed about quoted versions do give an explanation to the reader. **
Translation Notes on Hebrews

Chapter 1

(Verse5) 1Psalm 2:7(LXX)

(Verse 5) 22Sam 7:14, 1Chron 17:13(LXX)

(Verse 6) 3Dt 32:43 (LXX and Dead Sea Scrolls)

(Verse 7) 4Psalm 104:4

(Verse 8) 5Psalm 45:6-7

(Verses 10-12) 6Psalm 102:25-27

(Verse13) 7Psalm 110:1(LXX)

(Verse 3) A Some manuscript readings such as the Bezae, Peshitta, and some others have ‘through himself having made a cleansing of our sins.’ But the best manuscripts such as the Vaticanus, Alexandrinus, Vulgate, etc. read ‘when He had made purification of sins.’ There are a few ancient witnesses that read ‘through His having made a cleansing of our sins,’ one being p46, and it dates back to about 200AD, but the other five witnesses are 10th century and older.
 
COPLAND!!!

I haven’t been visiting this forum as often as a once did but I’ve been wondering how things have been going for you. I see you’re still doing a lot of in depth study.

Hope all is well with you!
 
Socrates,

Hey! Great to hear from you! I got rid of my internet service at the house, but I have access here at work, though I have not been able to use it as much as I would like.

Things are going great here! I am still pluggin along. How about you?
 
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