Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 2:5

"For not unto angels did he subject the world to come, whereof we speak." — Hebrews 2:5 (ASV)

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

We are the preachers of it, – not the angels; and the great Author and Finisher of our faith is the Man Christ Jesus, – not an angel. We do not now have the ministry of angels, but the ministry of men, by whom the Lord of the angels sends his messages to their fellows.

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

God has not made angels to be the preachers of the gospel.

Doubtless they derive some happiness from it, if only from the sight of those converted under it; but it is in no sense under the government of angels.

For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.

We have no angelic preachers; we sometimes speak of "the seraphic doctor," but no seraph ever was a preacher of the gospel of the grace of God; that honour has been reserved for a lower order of beings.