Exercitation on Hebrews, Biblical exegesis · Chapter 2 · Exposition of verse 10 – Exposition of verse 11
Ver. 7.
foreign.
The latter words which are commonly placed at the beginning of the eighth Verse, I have added unto this seventh, the sense and Hebrew Text so requiring it.
foreign.foreign; so the Apostle renders, foreign in the Psalmist, and that properly. Vul. Minuisti; which is not, thou hast made less; but thou hast lessened, which hath another sense than that here intended. Syr. foreign, depressisti; thou hast depressed, or made him less, or lower than he was. Beza; fecisti eum inferiorem; thou hast made him lower; and so ours. Rhemists; thou didst minish him a little less; obscurely: foreign, is imminuo, diminuo, to make less, to take from, as to state and condition. So in Isocrates, foreign, is to lessen the Dignity, State and Condition of the People. As in Latin, Capitis diminutio, is lessening of State or dignity; as by loss of Liberty. For when one was made a captive by the enemy, he lost his dignity, untill he recovered it jure postliminii. So Regulus is termed by the Poet, Capitis minor, when a Prisoner to the Garthaginians; or by change of Family; as when Clodius a Patrician was adopted by a Plebeian; or by Banishment; all such are foreign, lessened in State or Dignity. foreign, the word used by the Psalmist hath the same signification;foreign. and though it be variously rendered by the LXX. yet they never much depart from its native signification. foreign, to minish, make less, take from; foreign, the same, foreign, to become indigent. foreign; to be in want: foreign, all to the same purpose. foreign, to deprive; foreign, to want, to be indigent, to come short: and foreign, and foreign, to make empty; that is, foreign, the word used, Phil. 2.7. I observe this various rendering of the Word by the LXX. only to shew, that it doth constantly denote a diminution of state and condition, with an addition of Indigency, which will give us light into the Interpretation of the place.
foreign, breve quiddam: Vul. paulo minus. Syr. foreign, paululum, a little, or paulisper, foreign.a little while: foreign, is frequently by the LXX. rendered foreign, parvum, paululum, a little, intending quantity. Sometimes foreign, which they refer to number, a few, and sometimes foreign, and then it constantly respects time; a little while. So that foreign, is as much as foreign, that is, foreign; as in that saying, foreign, life is short; that is of short continuance; whether a little in degree, or a short time be here intended, we shall afterwards enquire.
foreign, Syr. foreign, prae Angelis, more than Angels, above the Angels;foreign. more destitute than the Angels: Heb. foreign, the Angels of God. So all Old Translations render the words. And to render it à Deo, in the Psalm, is needless, groundless, contradictory to the Apostle.
foreign, gloria & honore coronasti eum: foreign.with glory and honour hast thou crowned him. Syr. foreign, Glory and honour hast thou placed on his head: foreign: thou hast crowned him, or adorned his head, with Glory and Beauty, or honour: the first word denotes the Weight and worth, the latter the Beauty and Splendor of this Crown.
foreign; thou hast set him over.foreign. That is appointed him to be in Authority; as Pharaoh set Joseph over the Land of Aegypt. Syr. foreign, authoritatem, potestatem ei tribuisti; thou hast given him power or Authority; made him Sultan or Lord; Heb. foreign, made him Lord or Ruler; as Gen. 1.18. so foreign, is used, Acts 6. Luke 12.
foreign, hast put, put down,foreign. subjected all things under his feet; the words all of them emphatically denote subjection and depression; and as thus conjoyned the most absolute subjection that can be apprehended.
Verse 7.
Thou madest him lower for a little while than the Angels, thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him, (give him authority) over the works of thy hands; all things hast thou put in subjection under his feet.
Verse 8.
foreign.
Verse 8.
For in that, he made all things subject unto him, he hath left nothing not put in sabjection; but now we see not all things made subject unto him.
Verse 9.
foreign.
foreign.The words of this foreign, have most of them been considered in the foreign; and they must have the same sense in both places, or the reasoning of the Apostle would be Equivocal. For foreign, some old Copies read, foreign, besides God, God excepted. The Syriack Copies also vary: Some read, For God himself by his Grace tasted death: Others, for he, God excepted, tasted death; which came from foreign, and shews that variety to be antient. Hence some have imagined it to be a corruption of the Nestorians, who dividing the Person of Christ, would not grant that God might be said to dye contrary to Acts 20.28. foreign, is gratiâ, beneficentiâ, beneficio Dei: by the grace, goodness, good will of God, expressing the first spring, and moving cause of the sufferings of Christ;foreign. foreign, should taste of death; an Hebraism for to dye; intimating withall, the truth, reality, and kind of his death, which was bitter; and which was called his Cup;foreign. foreign, in the Masculine not Neuter Gender; for foreign, by an Enallage of number; that is, foreign, of whom he treats; all and every one of the children unto whom he was a Captain of Salvation.
Verse 9.
But we see Jesus crowned with glory and honour, who for the suffering of death was a little while made lower than the Angels, that he by the grace of God might taste of death for all.