Hebrews 1:3

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 1:3

3. Who being—by pre-existent and essential being. brightness of his glory—Greek, the effulgence of His glory. "Light of (from) light" [Nicene Creed]. "Who is so senseless as to doubt concerning the eternal being of the Son? For when has one seen light without effulgence?" [ATHANASIUS, Against Arius, Orations, 2]. "The sun is never seen without effulgence, nor the Father without the Son" [THEOPHYLACT]. It is because He is the brightness, c., and because He upholds, &c., that He sat down on... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 1:1-4

A. The Agent of God’s Final Revelation 1:1-4The writer began his epistle with an affirmation of Jesus Christ’s greatness to introduce his readers to his subject. This section is one sentence in the Greek text. It contrasts God’s old revelation with the new, specifically by presenting God’s Son as superior to all other previous modes of revelation."It would be misleading to think of Hebrews 1:1-4 as stating a thesis to be proved, or as giving a précis of the following argument. The author... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 1:2-3

Seven facts in these verses stress the Son’s unique greatness and the culminating character of His revelation. For the writer’s original Jewish readers the number seven connoted a complete work of God, as in the Creation.First, He is the "heir of all things." All things will fall under His authority. While Jesus Christ is presently in authority over all things, in the future God the Father will subject all things to Him in a more direct sense than the one in which they are now subject to Him... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 1:3

1:3 effulgence (b-4) That which fully presents the glory which is in something else. Thus light makes us know what the sun is; the tabernacle, what the pattern in the mount was. substance, (c-13) Clearly 'substance,' 'essential being,' not 'person.' It is of God, not of the Father. his (d-22) That is, his own, the Son's. made (e-25) The form (middle) of the verb here, has a peculiar reflexive force, 'having done it for himself.' Though we, as alone the sinners, have the profit, yet the work... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 1:1-13

The Supremacy of Christ. The OT. itself testifies to His supremacy as God’s Son over its own chief personages: (a) first the angels, through whom the Jews believed that creation had been effected and the Law given (Hebrews 1:4 to Hebrews 2:18).He is also superior (b) to Moses, the founder of the national religion, yet only a servant, whereas He is a Son (Hebrews 3:1-6), He is superior (c) to Joshua. He has rest to give, which Christians are warned not to miss by unfaith-fukiess, as Israel... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 1:1-14

The Final Revelation in the Son1-4. Introduction. God of old revealed Himself to the fathers of the race, but the revelation was not complete or final. In our own day He has given a direct revelation in the person of His own Son, the Lord and Creator of the universe, the perfect expression of the divine nature, who after His temporary humiliation upon earth, now occupies the highest place in the heavenly courts.1. At sundry times and in divers manners] RV ’by divers portions and in divers... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 1:3

(3) Who being the brightness . . .—Who being the effulgence of His glory and the exact image of His substance. The first figure is familiar to us in the words of the Nicene Creed (themselves derived from this verse and a commentary upon it), “God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God.” Again striking parallels to the language present themselves in Philo, who speaks of the spirit breathed into man at his creation as an “effulgence of the Blessed and Thrice-blessed Nature”; and in the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 1:1-14

Hebrews 1:1 In the fulness of time both Judaism and Paganism had come to nought; the outward framework, which concealed yet suggested the Living Truth, had never been intended to last, and it was dissolving under the beams of the Sun of Justice which shone behind it and through it The process of change had been slow; it had been done not rashly, but by rule and measure, 'at sundry times and in divers manners'; first one disclosure and then another, till the whole evangelical doctrine was... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Hebrews 1:1-3

CHAPTER ITHE REVELATION IN A SON"God, having of old time spoken unto the fathers in the prophets by divers portions and in divers manners, hath at the end of these days spoken unto us in His Son, Whom He appointed Heir of all things, through Whom also He made the worlds; Who being the effulgence of His glory, and the very image of His substance, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had made purification of sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high."-- Hebrews... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Hebrews 1:1-14

Analysis and Annotations I. CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD AND His GLORY CHAPTER 1-2:4 1. The Son in whom God hath spoken (Hebrews 1:1-4 ) 2. So much better than the angels (Hebrews 1:5-14 ) 3. Admonition and warning (Hebrews 2:1-4 ) Hebrews 1:1-6 Sublime is the beginning of this precious document. God who in many measures and in many ways spake of old to the fathers in the prophets, at the end of these days hath spoken to us in a Son, whom He constituted heir of all things, by whom also He made... read more

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