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God Has Spoken Through His Son

In the past God spoke to our people through the prophets. He spoke to them many times and in many different ways. And now in these last days, God has spoken to us again through his Son. He made the whole world through his Son. And he has chosen his Son to have all things. The Son shows the glory of God. He is a perfect copy of God’s nature, and he holds everything together by his powerful command. The Son made people clean from their sins. Then he sat down at the right side[a] of God, the Great One in heaven. The Son became much greater than the angels, and God gave him a name that is much greater than any of their names.

God never said this to any of the angels:

“You are my Son.
    Today I have become your Father.” (A)

God also never said about an angel,

“I will be his Father,
    and he will be my son.” (B)

And then, when God presents his firstborn Son to the world,[b] he says,

“Let all God’s angels worship him.”[c]

This is what God said about the angels:

“He changes his angels into winds[d]
    and his servants into flaming fire.” (C)

But this is what he said about his Son:

“God, your kingdom will last forever and ever.
    You use your authority for justice.
You love what is right and hate what is wrong.
    So God, your God, has chosen you,
    giving you more honor and joy than anyone like you.” (D)

10 God also said,

“O Lord, in the beginning you made the earth,
    and your hands made the sky.
11 These things will disappear, but you will stay.
    They will all wear out like old clothes.
12 You will fold them up like a coat,
    and they will be changed like clothes.
But you never change,
    and your life will never end.” (E)

13 And God never said this to an angel:

“Sit at my right side
    until I put your enemies under your power.[e](F)

14 All the angels are spirits who serve God and are sent to help those who will receive salvation.

Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 1:3 right side The place of honor and authority (power).
  2. Hebrews 1:6 world This may mean the world into which Jesus was born (see Lk. 2:1-14), or it may have the same meaning as in Heb. 2:5—the world to come, to which the risen Christ is presented as king (see Php. 2:9-11).
  3. Hebrews 1:6 “Let … him” These words are found in Deut. 32:43 in the ancient Greek version and in a Hebrew scroll from Qumran.
  4. Hebrews 1:7 winds This can also mean “spirits.”
  5. Hebrews 1:13 until I put … power Literally, “until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”

Бог, многократно и многообразно говоривший издревле отцам в пророках,

в последние дни сии говорил нам в Сыне, Которого поставил наследником всего, чрез Которого и веки сотворил.

Сей, будучи сияние славы и образ ипостаси Его и держа все словом силы Своей, совершив Собою очищение грехов наших, воссел одесную (престола) величия на высоте,

будучи столько превосходнее Ангелов, сколько славнейшее пред ними наследовал имя.

Ибо кому когда из Ангелов сказал [Бог]: Ты Сын Мой, Я ныне родил Тебя? И еще: Я буду Ему Отцем, и Он будет Мне Сыном?

Также, когда вводит Первородного во вселенную, говорит: и да поклонятся Ему все Ангелы Божии.

Об Ангелах сказано: Ты творишь Ангелами Своими духов и служителями Своими пламенеющий огонь.

А о Сыне: престол Твой, Боже, в век века; жезл царствия Твоего--жезл правоты.

Ты возлюбил правду и возненавидел беззаконие, посему помазал Тебя, Боже, Бог Твой елеем радости более соучастников Твоих.

10 И: в начале Ты, Господи, основал землю, и небеса--дело рук Твоих;

11 они погибнут, а Ты пребываешь; и все обветшают, как риза,

12 и как одежду свернешь их, и изменятся; но Ты тот же, и лета Твои не кончатся.

13 Кому когда из Ангелов сказал [Бог]: седи одесную Меня, доколе положу врагов Твоих в подножие ног Твоих?

14 Не все ли они суть служебные духи, посылаемые на служение для тех, которые имеют наследовать спасение?

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.

For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?

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

And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

10 And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands:

11 They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

13 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool?

14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?