Hebräer 2:7-17

7 Du hast ihn ein wenig unter die Engel erniedrigt; mit Herrlichkeit und Ehre hast du ihn gekrönt und ihn gesetzt über die Werke deiner Hände ;

8 du hast alles seinen Füßen unterworfen." Denn indem er ihm alles unterworfen, hat er nichts gelassen, das ihm nicht unterworfen wäre; jetzt aber sehen wir ihm noch nicht alles unterworfen.

9 Wir sehen aber Jesum, der ein wenig unter die Engel wegen des Leidens des Todes erniedrigt war, mit Herrlichkeit und Ehre gekrönt so daß er durch Gottes Gnade für alles den Tod schmeckte.

10 Denn es geziemte ihm, um deswillen alle Dinge und durch den alle Dinge sind, indem er viele Söhne zur Herrlichkeit brachte, den Urheber ihrer Errettung durch Leiden vollkommen zu machen.

11 Denn sowohl der, welcher heiligt, als auch die, welche geheiligt werden, sind alle von einem; um welcher Ursache willen er sich nicht schämt, sie Brüder zu nennen, indem er spricht:

12 "Ich will deinen Namen kundtun meinen Brüdern; inmitten der Versammlung will ich dir lobsingen".

13 Und wiederum: "Ich will mein Vertrauen auf ihn setzen". Und wiederum: "Siehe, ich und die Kinder, die Gott mir gegeben hat".

14 Weil nun die Kinder Blutes und Fleisches teilhaftig sind, hat auch er in gleicher Weise an denselben teilgenommen, auf daß er durch den Tod den zunichte machte, der die Macht des Todes hat, das ist den Teufel,

15 und alle die befreite, welche durch Todesfurcht das ganze Leben hindurch der Knechtschaft unterworfen waren.

16 Denn er nimmt sich fürwahr nicht der Engel an, sondern des Samens Abrahams nimmt er sich an.

17 Daher mußte er in allem den Brüdern gleich werden, auf daß er in den Sachen mit Gott ein barmherziger und treuer Hoherpriester werden möchte, um die Sünden des Volkes zu sühnen;

Hebräer 2:7-17 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.