Joh 1:1, Rom 9:5, Heb 1:6-8 | Family | STEP | In the beginning ; of the creation. He who was with God in the beginning of all created things, is before all things, and has existed from eternity. Compare chap . The Word ; a term applied by John to the second person of the Godhead in his eternal existence. Just as he is called "the Life" and "the Light," because he has in himself life and light, and imparts them to his creatures at his pleasure; so he is called "the Word," because in him "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," and by his word and Spirit he reveals them to men. See . With God ; in holy union, fellowship, and communion. Was God ; this is a direct assertion of his divine nature as existing from eternity. The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ is God, the maker of all things that ever were made. All who have the Bible are therefore bound to acknowledge him in this character, and to pay him divine honors.

John 1:1

In the beginning; of the creation. He who was with God in the beginning of all created things, is before all things, and has existed from eternity. Compare chap Joh 17:5; Col 1:17.

The Word; a term applied by John to the second person of the Godhead in his eternal existence. Just as he is called "the Life" and "the Light," because he has in himself life and light, and imparts them to his creatures at his pleasure; so he is called "the Word," because in him "are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," and by his word and Spirit he reveals them to men. See Re 19:13.

With God; in holy union, fellowship, and communion.

Was God; this is a direct assertion of his divine nature as existing from eternity. The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ is God, the maker of all things that ever were made. All who have the Bible are therefore bound to acknowledge him in this character, and to pay him divine honors.

Romans 9:5

Whose are the fathers; the patriarchs, priests, and prophets, a most illustrious ancestry.

Of whom as concerning the flesh; from whom, as to his human nature, Christ descended.

Who is over all, God blessed for ever; truly divine, Jehovah.

Hebrews 1:6-8

Bringeth in the first-begotten into the world; by his incarnation and the events that followed it, thus establishing in and through him "the kingdom of heaven" among men. It is of this kingdom that the ninety-seventh Psalm, from which the apostle immediately proceeds to quote, speaks. It describes, by anticipation, the coming of God as king to destroy the wicked and save his people, verses Heb 1:3-6. His reign is one in which "the multitude of isles," the whole gentile world, is called upon to rejoice, verse Heb 1:1. The ancient Jews rightly understood the psalm of the Messiah, in whom alone it is fulfilled, and whose kingdom it describes in its whole extent to the end of time.

Let all the angels of God worship him; quoted according to the Greek version from Ps 97:7, where the word "gods" in the original Hebrew means the heavenly hosts. As Christ in his deepest humiliation received the worship of angels as well as of men, and as he is now receiving it in glory, it is certain that he is God; and that in paying him divine honors they and we are not breaking, but obeying the command, Worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Mt 4:10; Re 5:8-14. And of the angels he saith; Ps 104:4. God indicates the nature and office of angels by calling them spirits and a flame of fire. The quotation, as usual in this epistle, is made from the Greek version of the Seventy. Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever; taken from Ps 45:6,7, where the Messiah appears in the character of the husband of the church.