(KJV)
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;
(NASB2020)
▼And He is the
radiance of His
glory and the
exact brepresentation of His
nature, and
▼ dupholds all things by
▼the
word of His
power. When He had
made fpurification of
sins, He
gsat down at the
right hand of the
hMajesty on
high,
(NET2full)
The
Son is ▼▼tn Grk “who being…and sustaining.”
Heb 1:1-4 form one skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments to correspond to contemporary English usage, which does not allow for sentences of this length and complexity.
the
radiance of his
glory and the
representation of
his essence,
and he
sustains all things by
his powerful word,
▼▼tn Grk “by the word of his power.”
and so when he had
accomplished cleansing for
sins,
he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
▼▼sn An allusion to
Ps 110:1, quoted often in Hebrews.
