have just now quoted, that Paul uses the Chiasmus even else where, but more frequently to the Jews; and Surenhusius shows, in the /3//3Xog xaraXXayJjg, p. 78, etc., 607, 608, that their teachers greatly delight in this figure of speech in their writings. Therefore the apostle, who became all things to all men, has adapted his style to the Hebrews; and these men, who were guided by the Spirit, had quite ready at their com mand all the forms of discourse, in a greater degree than the most practised rhetoricians. — xpstrruv ysvoftsvoc, being made better) by His exaltation, ver. 3, 13. The antithesis is vXarru/tevov, made loiuer or less, ch. ii. 9. This may be compared with Mark x. 18, note, [where Jesus, in His voluntary humiliation, saith, « Why callest thou Me good ? " etc.] xpzfrruv, better, more ex cellent, more powerful : o/ xpeirrovts, the gods, among the ancient heathens. — ruv ayy'eXuv, than the angels) whose excellence is elsewhere spoken of as great. — iea,f auroiig) cra^a denotes great pre-eminence above [as compared with] others. Comp. vapa, ver. 9, ch. iii. 3. Angels are excluded in part explicitly, ver. 5, 13, and in part by implication ; for while none of them has taken this name, the Son of GOD, from that very circumstance they are not the heirs of this name, and therefore not the heirs of all things ; but they are a portion, no doubt a distinguished one, of the inheritance of the Son, whom they worship as Lord, ver. 6 : nor were the worlds created by them, but rather they them selves were created, ver. 7.— xixfypovowxzv ovopa, He hath in herited a name) The name of Son is proper for the Son, because He is the Son ; and in this name principally the inheritance con sists. All things are an addition to the inheritance, ver. 2. The inheritance of the name is more ancient than the worlds them selves. The inheritance of all things is as old as all things them selves.
5. T/w yap, for to which [whom]) A frequent argument in this epistle is derived from the silence of Scripture : ver. 13, ch. ii. 16, vii. 3, 14. — ruv ayyshuv, of the angels) For none of them took [was capable of taking] this glory. — ribs, the Son) Acts xiii. 33. — eyw — r'/bv) So the LXX., 2 Sam. vii. 14. That promise, / will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son, had regard to Solomon, but much more, considering how august the promise is, to the Messiah ; otherwise Solomon also