Hebrews 1:6 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 1:6

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels worship Him.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And when he again bringeth in the firstborn into the world he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

KJV

And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.

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Commentary

4 voices

Didymus the Blind

FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 1.6 (398)

If all creation worships Christ—for by the name "angels" he denotes the higher rational beings, just as also in the passage "to what angel has he ever said, 'Sit at my right hand'?" he himself is also above them—and the word of the Scriptures forbid …

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten - This is not a correct translation of the Greek, Ὁταν δε παλιν εισαγαγῃ τον πρωτοτοκον εις την οικουμενην· But when he bringeth again, or the second time, the first-born into the habitable world.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

"Worship Him all ye gods" ("gods," that is, exalted beings, as angels), refers to God; but it was universally admitted among the Hebrews that God would dwell, in a peculiar sense, in Messiah (so as to be in the Talmud phrase, "capable of being pointed to with the finger"); and so what was said of God was true of, and to be fulfilled in, Messiah.

Modern Voices1 voice

Michael S. Heiser

"Naked Bible Podcast Episode 176: Hebrews 1:5-14" show notes (drmsh.com) (2017)

The writer of Hebrews builds on his assertions that the particular son of God (Jesus) who was the agent of creation, eternal wisdom, and the essence of God, by comparing him to other supernatural sons of God (angels).

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅταν	hotan	When	G3752 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
πάλιν	palin	again	G3825 →
εἰσαγάγῃ	eisagagē	He may bring	G1521 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
πρωτότοκον	prōtotokon	Firstborn	G4416 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
οἰκουμένην	oikoumenēn	world	G3625 →
λέγει·	legei	He says:	G3004 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
προσκυνησάτωσαν	proskunēsatōsan	should worship	G4352 →
αὐτῷ	autō	Him	G846 →
πάντες	pantes	all	G3956 →
ἄγγελοι	angeloi	[the] angels	G32 →
θεοῦ.	theou	of God.	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Colossians 1:15
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
leads to
- Hebrews 1:3
  The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the…
- John 14:9
  Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the…
- John 1:1
  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
- 2 Corinthians 4:4
  The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
- John 1:18
  No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is Himself God and is at the Father’s side, has made Him known.
Through
Colossians 1:18
And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and firstborn from among the dead, so that in all things He may have preeminence.
leads to
- Ephesians 1:22–23
  And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,
- Revelation 1:5
  and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by…
- Ephesians 4:15–16
  Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head.

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