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Hebkews II. 9, 10. 337
tlie angels, and is the object of their adoration. In Phil. ii. 5-10
we have the best commentary on the passage before us. Before him
who once humbled himself to the death of the cross every knee now
bows, those who are in heaven and on earth, and he bears a name
which is above all names.
The adjectival attribute, however, '))XaTTWjihov (3paxv n, was
evidently, necessary, because the author would make it plain that
he speaks here not of that
glory and honour which Christ enjoyed
before his incarnation, as the first-horn (chap, i.), but of the
honour which the incarnate, after having been humbled to the
condition of men, made subject to misery and death, has received
as the reward of his suffering unto death. Hence he designates
Jesus expressly, as him who like us was for a time made lower than
the angels.
The words dm ro -ndOe^fxa (as Olshausen also rightly observes) cannot
with Beza and Jac. Capellus be made grammatically dependent
on 7]Xa-TU)iJ.8vov, but only on iorecpavcju^rw. The question, however,
why t:orE^avG)[X6vov does not stand as antithetical to i\XaTT. before did,
ro TTd07]na finds its answer in the simple remark, that the ernphasis
here does not rest on the antithesis between the humiliation and the
exaltation, but on that between the not yet exalted man and the
already exalted Jesus. 'Eare^ai'wft. is therefore antithetical with
0V7T0)
the end.
.... vnorerayiJ^ivaj and must like vnoreTayi^iva be placed at
Bleek, who construes the sentence in the same way, finds himself
now in vers. 9, 10 involved in an evident perplexity, owing to
his erroneous interpretation of vers. 6, 7. He must admit that
mention is first made of the person of Jesus Christ in ver. 9, and
yet, according to his opinion, mention was already made in vers. 6-8
of 6 vibg Tov dvdpwirov. There remains for him, then, no other way
of escaping from this difficulty, but that of explaining vers. 6-8 of
the Messicih as promised, vers. 9, 10 of Jesus as the fulfiller of that
prophecy. The following is the meaning which he assigns to the
rerses before us : According to the promise all things are to be
made subject to the Messiah ; all things are, however, not yet made
subject to the Messiah actually come, to Jesus (he has still enemies
and unbelievers on the earth). This seeming objection to the Messiahship
of Jesus the author now seeks to remove by saying, that
Jesus, although not yet exalted over all, is still in the meanwhile
crow7ied.—Here, in the first place, the respected theologian contradicts
himself when he finds the historical person of Jesus mentioned
in the sentence vvv 6e, and not first in the sentence rbv dt: yXarT.
(see his own interpretation p. 260), and when he finds an antithesis
between the avT(jj in the sentence vvv 6e and the fouegoing avrio,
which can only be found between the vvv 6e
Vol. VL—22.
. . . . avrui and the rbv