Hebrews 2:16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. I. WHAT IS NATURALLY INFERRED from Christ's " taking on Him the seed of Abraham." 1. The Divine nature of Christ. 2. The reality of Christ's human nature. 3. The truth of His office, and the divinity of His mission. 4. His voluntary choice and design, to assume a condition here upon earth low and contemptible. II. WHY CHRIST TOOK UPON HIM THE NATURE OF MAN, AND NOT OF ANGELS. 1. The transcendent greatness and malignity of the sin of the angels above that of men. (1) As being committed against a much greater light, which is to be the proper guide and ruler of the will in all its choices. (2) The sin of the angels commenced upon a greater liberty of will and freedom of choice. There was no devil to tempt them to become devils; no seducer of a stronger reason to impose upon theirs; they moved entirely upon the motives of an intrinsic malice. 2. The next, and perhaps the grand cause, that induced Christ to take upon Him the nature and mediation of men, and not of angels, might be this; that without such a Redeemer, the whole race and species of mankind had perished, as being all involved in the sin of their representative; whereas, though many of the angels sinned, yet as many, if not more, persisted in their innocence; so that the whole kind was not cashiered by a universal ruin, nor made unserviceable to their Creator, in the nobler instances of active obedience. (R. South, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.WEB: For most certainly, he doesn't give help to angels, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham. |
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