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Hath in these last days; the gospel day, last, as after the days of the old world, and after the law given to Israel by Moses: the days of the fourth kingdom of the Roman empire, in the height of which Christ came into the world, and at the end of it shall accomplish his kingdom, Dan_2:40,44. The last, because the perfection of those types which went before, when Christ settled in the church that religion which must remain unalterable, to the end of the world, Heb_12:25-28: the best days for clearest light and greatest mercies.
Spoken; revealed his will to us once and entirely, Joh_1:17,18 Jude 1:3,4; discovering the excellent things of God more clearly than they were before, Eph_3:3-11 1Pe_1:10-12.
To us: the believing Hebrews were so favoured beyond their fathers, to have the best revelation of God in Christ made to them, Mat_13:16,17 Lu 10:23,24.
By his Son; our Lord Jesus Christ, who cometh out of the Father as a Son, Joh_1:14 16:28. He is his bosom Son, nearest his heart, Joh_1:18; the complete Word of him, creating the new world as well as the old, Joh_1:1; his wisdom, who teacheth without any mistake, declaring all of God, being truth itself, and exhibiting of it, what he hath seen as well as heard, Joh_3:11.
Whom; this Son, who naturally issueth from his Father by a Divine and anutterable generation, Pro_8:22-31 30:4. On him all the Father’s love doth terminate, Col_1:13. He is to be the Founder and Builder of God’s family, propagating being to a holy seed for him, Heb_3:3-6.
He hath appointed; the Father hath chosen and ordained him as God-man to heirship by an inviolable ordinance of his decree, as 1Pe_1:20; compare Eph_1:10; giving him thereby right and title to all things; appointing to him his nature, Heb_2:16, compare Heb_10:5; his offices in this nature, his kingly, Psa_2:6,7, his priestly, Heb_3:1,2, his prophetical, Act_3:22; being heir by nature, as God the Son, and heir by an irresistible ordinance, as God-man Mediator: so as he had a super-added right from the Father, which right he was able to make over to us, but his natural right he could not, Rom_8:17. And he was by solemn investiture put in possession of it at his ascension, when he sat down on the Father’s right hand, Heb_12:2 Mat_28:18 Eph_1:20-22 Phi_2:9-11.
Heir; Lord Proprietor, who hath sovereign and universal power over all, being the firstborn, and receiving the right of it in the whole inheritance, Psa_89:27 Rom_8:29 Col_1:15,18. The lot and portion is fallen to him by God’s law, the heir being Lord of all, Gal_4:1; being heir of his brethren, Psa_2:8, and the builder and purchaser of his inheritance, Rev_5:9-14; compare 1Pe_1:3,4,18,19; possessing the inheritance during his Father’s life, and making all his brethren heirs of it with him.
Of all things; of all things within the compass of God, all that God is, all that God hath, all that God can or will do. All dominions of God, heaven, earth, and hell, are his. He is Lord of angels, Eph_1:21 Col_1:18, and hath made them fellow servants with us, to himself, and ministering guards to us, Heb_1:14 Rev_5:11 19:10: of devils, to overrule them, who cannot go or come but as he permits them, Mat_8:31 Col_2:15: of saints, Joh_17:13 Rom_8:29: of wicked men, his enemies, 2Th_1:8,9: of all creatures, Col_1:15-17: of all God’s works, spiritual, temporal, past, present, or to come; pardon, peace, righteousness, life, glory; all blessings of all sorts, for time and for eternity. This Son-prophet hath right to, actual possession of, and free and full disposal of them. All, both in law and gospel, his, Moses himself, and all his work, to order, change, and do his pleasure with.
By whom; his Son God-man, a joint cause, a primary and principal agent with the Father, and not a mere instrument, second in working as in relation; by this Word and Wisdom of God, who was the rule and idea of all things, all things were modelled, received their shapes, forms, and distinct beings, Joh_1:1-3 5:19,20 Col 1:16. In the works of the Trinity, what one relation is said to do the other do, but in their order, answerable to the three principles in every action, wisdom, will, and power.
He made; created and framed, giving being where there was none, causing to subsist; suggesting herein his ability for redemption work. He who made the world can remove it, Heb_11:3.
The worlds; touv aiwnav, scarce to be met with in any part of Scripture but this Epistle; strictly it signifieth ages, and things measured by time; answer it doth to the Hebrew Mlwe which imports both an age and the world: so ages are here well translated worlds, all creatures and things measured by them. The Scriptures acquaint us with an upper world, and the inhabitants thereof, angels and glorified saints; the heavenly world, Heb_1:10, where the morning stars sang together, Job_38:7; compare Gen_1:1. There is a lower earthly world, with its inhabitants, men, who live on the things in it, Psa_24:1. And there is a regenerate world, the new heavens and new earth made by Christ, and a new sabbath for them, Heb_12:26-28; compare 2Pe_3:13. There is Adam’s world that now is, this present world, Eph_1:21; and the world to come, which as it is made by, so for, the Second Adam, the Lord from heaven, in which he eminently is to reign, Psa_8:5-8; of which see Heb_2:5.