Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 1:7

"And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels winds, And his ministers a flame a fire:" — Hebrews 1:7 (ASV)

The Hebrew of Ps 104:4 can mean either that God makes the winds his messengers and the flames his servants or that he makes his messengers (angels) into winds and his servants into flames. The LXX, which the author quotes, takes the latter view, though this does not suggest any downgrading of the angels. But if the angels are immeasurably superior to human beings, the Son is immeasurably superior to the angels. Whereas he has sonship, they are reducible to nothing more than the elemental forces of wind and fire. This passage also seems to imply that the angels are temporary in contrast to the Son, who is eternal.