Hebreos 2:4-14

4 testificando Dios juntamente con ellos, tanto por señales como por prodigios, y por diversos milagros y por dones del Espíritu Santo según su propia voluntad.

5 Porque no sujetó a los ángeles el mundo venidero , acerca del cual estamos hablando.

6 Pero uno ha testificado en cierto lugar diciendo: ¿QUE ES EL HOMBRE PARA QUE DE EL TE ACUERDES, O EL HIJO DEL HOMBRE PARA QUE TE INTERESES EN EL?

7 LE HAS HECHO UN POCO INFERIOR A LOS ANGELES; LE HAS CORONADO DE GLORIA Y HONOR, Y LE HAS PUESTO SOBRE LAS OBRAS DE TUS MANOS;

8 TODO LO HAS SUJETADO BAJO SUS PIES. Porque al sujetarlo todo a él, no dejó nada que no le sea sujeto. Pero ahora no vemos aún todas las cosas sujetas a él.

9 Pero vemos a aquel que fue hecho un poco inferior a los ángeles, es decir, a Jesús, coronado de gloria y honor a causa del padecimiento de la muerte, para que por la gracia de Dios probara la muerte por todos.

10 Porque convenía que aquel para quien son todas las cosas y por quien son todas las cosas, llevando muchos hijos a la gloria, hiciera perfecto por medio de los padecimientos al autor de la salvación de ellos.

11 Porque tanto el que santifica como los que son santificados, son todos de un Padre; por lo cual El no se averguenza de llamarlos hermanos,

12 diciendo: ANUNCIARE TU NOMBRE A MIS HERMANOS, EN MEDIO DE LA CONGREGACION TE CANTARE HIMNOS.

13 Y otra vez: YO EN EL CONFIARE. Y otra vez: HE AQUI, YO Y LOS HIJOS QUE DIOS ME HA DADO.

14 Así que, por cuanto los hijos participan de carne y sangre, El igualmente participó también de lo mismo, para anular mediante la muerte el poder de aquel que tenía el poder de la muerte, es decir, el diablo,

Hebreos 2:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO HEBREWS 2

In this chapter the apostle, from the superior excellency of Christ, by whom the Gospel revelation is come, discoursed of in the preceding, urges the believers he writes to, to a more diligent attention to the Gospel, and the doctrines of it; to which he adds another motive inducing thereunto, lest those things should be let slip, and be lost, Heb 2:1 and then, by another argument from the less to the greater, that if the law, which was given by angels, could not be broken with impunity, then how should such escape divine punishment that neglected and despised the Gospel, which is a doctrine of salvation, was delivered by the Lord himself, and confirmed by various testimonies and miracles, Heb 2:2-4. And besides the Gospel dispensation is not put into the hands of angels, but into the hands of Christ, to whom all things are subject, which is proved out of Ps 8:4-6 and which proof shows, that though Christ, on account of his sufferings and death, was for a while made lower than the angels, yet being now crowned with glory and honour, he is above them, and they are subject to him, since all things are, Heb 2:5-9. And this anticipates an objection that might be taken from hence against what the apostle had asserted in the foregoing chapter, concerning the superiority of Christ to angels; and this leads him on to observe the reason of the sufferings and death of Christ, and also of his incarnation; that the moving cause of Christ's sufferings and death was the grace and good will of God; that he did not suffer for himself, but for others, for everyone of those described in the context; that inasmuch as he was the surety of those persons, it was agreeable to the justice of God, and it could not be otherwise, but he must be made perfect through suffering; and this was the way to bring many sons to glory, Heb 2:9,10 and as for his incarnation, or his becoming man, that was necessary, that the sanctifier and the sanctified might be of the same nature, that he might be able to call them brethren and children, Heb 2:11-13 as he does, for which are cited \Ps 22:22 18:2 Isa 8:18\ and because the children he engaged to bring to glory were partakers of flesh and blood; and also that he might be capable of dying, and by dying destroy the devil, and deliver his timorous people, who, through fear of death, lived in a continual state of bondage, Heb 2:14,15 for which reason he did not take upon him the nature of angels, but of the seed of Abraham, Heb 2:16 And besides, it was necessary he should be in all things like unto his brethren, that he might be merciful to them, and faithful to God, and be in a state and condition capable of sympathizing with them, and succouring them under their temptations, which he was able to do by suffering through temptation himself, Heb 2:17,18.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit., la tierra habitada venidera