Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 1:4

4 Being made so much better than the angels , as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they .

This God-Man the great Gospel-Minister is more excellent than Angels, and so must surpass all the Prophets. He became thus by being surety constituted and declared, as ordained by God's Decree from Eternity, in eminently above them by actual investitu[illegible: 1 letter]e on his Ascension, Ephes. 1.20, 21. A more excellent Person he is beyond any comparison for his Divine Nature, and in his Humane transcending the Angelical, on the account of the Hypostatical Union, see ver. 6.

These were Spirits likest God, and called Elohims, or Gods, ver. 7. Psal. 104.4. being most Pure, Glorious, Powerful, and Heavenly Creatures, Mark 8.38. and 13.32. 2 Thes. 1.7. Of various ranks, orders and degrees, Ephes. 1.21. Col. 1.16. used by Christ as his Ministers in the delivering of his Law on Mount Sinai to Israel, chap. 2.2. Acts 7.[illegible: 1 letter]3. Gal. 8.19. The measure of his transcendency over these, for Person, Office and Name, is infinitely beyond expression.

This was his peculiar, hereditary Lot, due to him by natural Right, as the Heir and first-Born of God, justly acquired by him, and actually possessed of him, not as a meer Title but a Name descriptive of his Person, distinguishing him from, and setting him above all others, God the Son incarnate, Isai. 7.14. and 9.6. Lord over all Creatures in Heaven and in Earth, and under it, Phil. 2.9, 10, 11. Not a simple Messenger, but a Son, Matth. 17.5. Iohn 1.18. the Redeemer, Justifier, and Saviour of his People, Luke 1.31, 32. He is a Person of Name, famous for Power, Glory and Dignity above all others, Ephes. 1.21. Phil. 2.9, 10, 11.

[non-Latin text not transcribed], Differencing from, and setting above all the Names of Angels for Eminency, The Arch-Angel himself a Servant and Attendant on him, 1 Thess. 4.16. His is more differencing and transcending in his kind than the Name of Angels is in their kind; He is above whatever they can pretend to, and so a more excellent Prophet than they. He hath in all things as well as Name, over them the pre-eminency.