Hebrews 2:5-18-- To Taste Death for Everyone

Scripture: Hebrews 2:5-18

As I noted last time, Hebrews 1 and the beginning of Hebrews 2 give us a crucial truth-- Jesus is supreme, and so His message is supremely important to our lives. 'But,' the Hebrew audience might have objected, 'Jesus was a man, right? You're telling me a first century human was high above the angels and, as I sense you're about to tell me, Moses of old?'

I'm not sure how these ancient readers would have known about the numbered century system or what the author would write next, but their imagined interjection is a reasonable one. If the Son of God has all the glory and preeminence described in chapter 1, why do we find that He has lived life as a human?

Hebrews 1-- A More Excellent Name

Scripture: Hebrews 1

The book of Hebrews is amazing. Commentator Matthew Henry declared that "if we compare all the epistles of the New Testament, we shall not find any of them more replenished with divine, heavenly matter than this to the Hebrews." Adam Clarke asserted that it "is by far the most important and useful of all the apostolic writings... so many are the beauties, so great the excellency, so instructive the matter, so pleasing the manner, and so exceedingly interesting the whole..."

I've always loved Hebrews, so I have no argument. Though Clarke's Apostolic Writings Power Rankings were pretty forward-thinking in the late 1700s. I imagine he posted them on his Irish town's local Buzzfeed Stone Wall.