Joh 1:14, Rom 9:5, 1Ti 3:16, Heb 1:6-8 | Family | STEP | Made flesh ; took upon him human nature--because a man. Thus the apostle teaches, in the most direct terms, that "the man Christ Jesus" is also the Word that was with God before the world was. Beheld his glory; . Only begotten of the Father ; possessed of his nature, and peculiarly the object of his infinite affection, dwelling in him, knowing him, and perfectly fitted to make him known. Grace and truth ; favor to the guilty, knowledge of truth, and all needed good communicated to men.

John 1:14

Made flesh; took upon him human nature--because a man. Thus the apostle teaches, in the most direct terms, that "the man Christ Jesus" is also the Word that was with God before the world was.

Beheld his glory; Mt 17:1-9; Mr 9:2-10.

Only begotten of the Father; possessed of his nature, and peculiarly the object of his infinite affection, dwelling in him, knowing him, and perfectly fitted to make him known.

Grace and truth; favor to the guilty, knowledge of truth, and all needed good communicated to men.

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.

1 Timothy 3:16

The mystery of godliness; that great mystery of the manifestation of God in human nature, of which the apostle proceeds to speak. It is a mystery, as having been hitherto hidden in the secret counsels of God; and the mystery of godliness, as having godliness for its end in all that believe.

God was manifest in the flesh; compare Joh 1:14, "And the Word was made flesh"--the same Word which was in the beginning with God, and was God, verse 1Ti 3:1.

Justified in the Spirit; shown to be just in his claims as the Messiah, by the Holy Ghost, given to him without measure, and working in and by him with divine power.

Seen of angels; who ministered to him and worshipped him, even in his deepest humiliation. Heb 1:6.

Preached unto the Gentiles; to all nations as the almighty and only Saviour.

Believed on; by multitudes of Jews and Gentiles.

Received up into glory; where he ever lives to make intercession for all who come unto God by him. Heb 7:25.

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.