Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 1:10
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Hebrews1:10
10 And, Thou Lord in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the works of thine hands .
This connective Particle joins this to the former proof, that Christ had a more excellent Name than Angels, even that of God. That he was God, he proved out of Psal. 45.6, 7. He seconds it in this and the two following Verses, which he quotes out of Psal. 102.25, 26, 27. The strength of which lieth thus; He who was Iehovah, and the great Creator of the World, is God; such is Christ the great Gospel-Prophet. This is evident in the Prayer recorded in the Psalm made to him, compared with the Spirit's Testimony, v. 8. the very works appropriated to Iehovah there, are the acknowledged works of God the Son, as Redemption, Psal. 102.20, 21. Vocation of the Gentiles, ver. 15, 18, 22.
In the beginning of Time when that came to be the measure and limit of things, as Gen. 1.1. Before there were any such Creatures as Angels, he was Iehovah, Iohn 1.1. And then manifested himself to be Iehovah. The Enemies of Christ's Deity say that the Name Iehovah is not in the Verse of the Psalm quoted by the Spirit; yet Thou, the Relative used in all those Verses, refers to God, the antecedent prayed to in ver. 24. and to Iehovah, the Name given him, in ver. 1, 12, 15, 16, 18, 19, 21, 22. of that Psalm; all importing one and the same Person. And it is well known that [non-Latin text not transcribed], Lord, doth eminently decipher the Redeemer in the New Testament; he is not an Instrument of Iehovah to create by, but the Fountain of all Being, Iehovah Himself.
By Founding the Earth, and the Heavens being the Work of thy Hands, is meant the whole Work of Creation throughout the space of Six days: He was the true, full, sole and self-causality of the Earths Being, and all Creatures in it, and of the Heavens, and all Beings which are in them; He was the great Architect and Founder of them all; they were his peculiar Workmanship, Possession and Dominion, 1 Cor. 8.6. compare Iohn 1.2. Col. 1.16. If the Heavens were the Works of his Hands and all in them, then he was the Creator of Angels, and therefore must be for Person, Name, and Office, more excellent than they.
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