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having become as much superior to angels as the name he has obtained is more excellent than theirs.
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The Son Is Superior to Angels
For to what angel did God ever say, “Thou art my Son, today I have begotten thee”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?
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And again, when he brings the first-born into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”
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Of the angels he says, “Who makes his angels winds, and his servants flames of fire.”
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But to what angel has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand till I make thy enemies a stool for thy feet”?
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For if the message declared by angels was valid and every transgression or disobedience received a just retribution,
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Exaltation through Abasement
For it was not to angels that God subjected the world to come, of which we are speaking.
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Thou didst make him for a little while lower than the angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honor,
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But we see Jesus, who for a little while was made lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for every one.
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For surely it is not with angels that he is concerned but with the descendants of Abraham.
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But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
