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It became (ἔπρεπεν)
Not logical necessity (δεῖ, Heb 2:1), nor obligation growing out of circumstances (ὤφειλεν, Heb 2:17), but an inner fitness in God's dealing. Dr. Robertson Smith observes: “The whole course of nature and grace must find its explanation in God; and not merely in an abstract divine arbitrium, but in that which befits the divine nature.”
For whom - by whom (δι' ὅν - δι' οὗ)
For whom, that is, for whose sake all things exist. God is the final cause of all things. This is not = εἰς αὐτὸν τὰ πάντα unto whom are all things, Rom 11:36; which signifies that all things have their realization in God; while this means that all things have their reason in God. By whom, through whose agency, all things came into being. On διὰ applied to God, see on Heb 1:2. These two emphasize the idea of fitness. It was becoming even to a God who is the beginning and the end of all things.
In bringing many sons unto glory (πολλοὺς υἱοὺς εἰς δόξαν ἀγαγόντα)
Const. bringing with him; not with captain, which would mean “to perfect the captain, etc., as one who led many sons, etc.” Αγαγόντα is not to be explained who had brought, or after he had brought, with a reference to the O.T. saints, “he had brought many O.T. sons of God unto glory”; but rather, bringing as he did, or in bringing, as A.V. Many sons, since their leader himself was a son. Unto glory, in accordance with the glory with which he himself had been crowned (Heb 2:9). The glory is not distinguished from the salvation immediately following. For the combination salvation and glory see 2Ti 2:10; Rev 19:1.
To make perfect (τελειῶσαι)
Lit. to carry to the goal or consummation. The “perfecting” of Jesus corresponds to his being “crowned with glory and honor,” although it is not a mere synonym for that phrase; for the writer conceives the perfecting not as an act but as a process. “To make perfect” does not imply moral imperfection in Jesus, but only the consummation of that human experience of sorrow and pain through which he must pass in order to become the leader of his people's salvation.
The captain of their salvation (τὸν ἀρχηγὸν τῆς σωτηρίας αὐτῶν)
Comp. Act 5:31. Ἀρχηγὸς captain, quite frequent in lxx and Class. Rev. renders author, which misses the fact that the Son precedes the saved on the path to glory. The idea is rather leader, and is fairly expressed by captain.