Account Already Angels Behold Crown Crowned Death Glory God's Grace Honor Honour Human Inferior Less Lower Messengers Namely Order Suffered Suffering Taste Undergo Wearing
2:9 {6} But we {l} see Jesus, who was made a little {m} lower than the angels {7} for the {n} suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should {o} taste death for {8} every man.
(6) The answer: this is already fulfilled in Jesus Christ our head, who was temporarily for our sakes inferior to the angels, being made man: but now is advanced into most high glory.
(l) By his virtue and power which appears revealed in the Church.
(m) Who abased himself for a time, and took the position of a servant.
(7) He shows the cause of this subjection, that is, to taste death for our sakes, that in so doing the part of a redeemer, he might not only be our Prophet and King, but also our High Priest.
(n) That he might die.
(o) Feel death.
(8) In this exists the force of the argument: for we could not eventually be glorified with him, unless he was abased for us, even for all the elect. By this event the apostle comes to the other part of the declaration of Christ's person, in which he proved him to be God and also man.
2:9 But we see Jesus. Jesus is the solution of the problem. He was made while in the flesh on earth apparently
lower than the angels, and suffered death, but he, the Son of Man, who died as mortals die, the now glorified man, has all authority... in heaven and in earth (Mt 28:18). Through him, the Son of Man, all things are subjected to glorified humanity.
Thst he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. To die. He became man in order that he might die for every man, and because of the suffering of death was crowned (Php 2:9). It was after his suffering that all power was given unto his hands. Compare 1Co 15:27 Eph 1:20 Php 3:21.
2:9 It is done only with regard to Jesus, God - Man, who is now crowned with glory and honour - As a reward for his having suffered death. He was made a little lower than the angels - Who cannot either suffer or die. That by the grace of God, he might taste death - An expression denoting both the reality of his death, and the shortness of its continuance. For every man - That ever was or will be born into the world.
2:5-9 Neither the state in which the church is at present, nor its more completely restored state, when the prince of this world shall be cast out, and the kingdoms of the earth become the kingdom of Christ, is left to the government of the angels: Christ will take to him his great power, and will reign. And what is the moving cause of all the kindness God shows to men in giving Christ for them and to them? it is the grace of God. As a reward of Christ's humiliation in suffering death, he has unlimited dominion over all things; thus this ancient scripture was fulfilled in him. Thus God has done wonderful things for us in creation and providence, but for these we have made the basest returns.
Angels Crown Crowned Death Glory God's Grace Honor Honour Human Inferior Jesus Little Namely Order Suffered Suffering Taste Wearing
Angels Crown Crowned Death Glory God's Grace Honor Honour Human Inferior Jesus Little Namely Order Suffered Suffering Taste Wearing
