NEW TESTAMENT

Hebrews 1:4

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having become as much better than the angels as the more excellent name he has inherited is better than theirs.

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Verse 4. Being made so much better, and so forth The Arians pretended from hence that Christ was made, or created. But the apostle speaks of Christ as man, and tells us that Christ, even as man, by his ascension was exalted above the Angels.—As he hath inherited a more excellent name. That is, both the dignity and name of the Son of God, of his only Son, and of his true Son. See 1 John 5:20. Witham.

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