The author wants to establish from the outset the superiority of the revelation in Christ, and the completion of man 's reconciliation with God. In the past, God spoke through the Words of the prophets, through the patriarchs, through signs and punishment, and through angels. But now He speaks through the words, life, death, and resurrection of his Son.
Hebrews 1:1-3 - God, who gave our forefathers (of the Jewish nation) many different glimpses of the truth in the words of the prophets, has now, at the end of the present age, given us the truth in the Son (Jesus Christ). Through the Son God made the whole universe, and to the Son he has ordained that all creation shall ultimately belong. This Son, radiance of the glory of God, flawless expression of the nature of God, himself the upholding principle of all that is, effected in person the reconciliation between God and man and then took his seat at the right hand of the majesty on high ....
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' (Psalm 2:7) Or, again 'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? ' (2 Samuel 7:14; 1 Chronicles 17:13) Further, when he brings his first-born into this world of men, he says: 'Let all the angels of God worship him ' (Deuteronomy 32:43 in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Septuagint version of the Jewish