Ministering spirits (λειτουργικα πνευματα). Thayer says that λειτουργικος was not found in profane authors, but it occurs in the p…

Are they not all. There is not one of them that is elevated to the high rank of the Redeemer. Even the most exalted angel is employed in t…

Are they not all ministering spirits?—In this verse and the preceding, the contrast of Hebrews 1:7-9 is repeated, in reve…

Are they not all, etc. So that the comparison may appear more clearly, he now mentions what the condition of angels is. For by ca…

Are they not all ministering spirits
Servants to God, to Christ, and to his people, and therefore must be inferior t…

Many Jews had a superstitious or idolatrous respect for angels because they had received the law and other messages of the Divine will through thei…

Previously, the Apostle proved three ways in which Christ excels the angels; here he proves a fourth: that He sits at the right hand of majesty, wh…