Hebreos 2:4-14

4 Además, Dios confirmó el mensaje mediante señales, maravillas, diversos milagros y dones del Espíritu Santo según su voluntad.

5 Jesús, el hombre
Es más, no son los ángeles quienes gobernarán el mundo futuro del cual hablamos,

6 porque en cierto lugar las Escrituras dicen:
«¿Qué son los simples mortales para que pienses en ellos,
o el hijo del hombre
para que te preocupes por él?

7 Sin embargo, lo hiciste un poco menor que los ángeles
y lo coronaste de gloria y honor.

8 Le diste autoridad sobre todas las cosas»
.
Ahora bien, cuando dice «todas las cosas», significa que nada queda afuera; pero todavía no vemos que todas las cosas sean puestas bajo su autoridad.

9 No obstante, lo que sí vemos es a Jesús, a quien se le dio una posición «un poco menor que los ángeles»; y debido a que sufrió la muerte por nosotros, ahora está «coronado de gloria y honor». Efectivamente, por la gracia de Dios, Jesús conoció la muerte por todos.

10 Dios —para quien y por medio de quien todo fue hecho— eligió llevar a muchos hijos a la gloria. Convenía a Dios que, mediante el sufrimiento, hiciera a Jesús un líder perfecto, apto para llevarlos a la salvación.

11 Por lo tanto, Jesús y los que él hace santos tienen el mismo Padre. Por esa razón, Jesús no se avergüenza de llamarlos sus hermanos,

12 pues le dijo a Dios:
«Anunciaré tu nombre a mis hermanos.
Entre tu pueblo reunido te alabaré»
.

13 También dijo:
«Pondré mi confianza en él»,
es decir, «yo y los hijos que Dios me dio»
.

14 Debido a que los hijos de Dios son seres humanos —hechos de carne y sangre— el Hijo también se hizo de carne y sangre. Pues solo como ser humano podía morir y solo mediante la muerte podía quebrantar el poder del diablo, quien tenía
el poder sobre la muerte.

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.