Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 1:5

5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time , Thou art my Son , this day have I begotten thee ? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son .

The Apostle here proves that Christ hath a more excellent Name and pre-eminency over Angels by Scripture-Texts owned by these Hebrews. He had the Name of Son of God, and so had not Angels; for God the Father, who hath absolute power to give and state all excellency, never said to any Angel, so as to constitute him his Only Son by an Ordinance or Word of Power; Sons he may stile them, as Iob 2.1. and Psal. 89.6. As he doth Members of his Church, Gen. 6.2. and Princes and Magistrates, Psal. 82.1, 6. but always in the Plural Number as he doth the Angels, Iob 38.7. noting out their Power, Place and Ministry. But Son is singular to Christ, and incommunicable to any other.

This is quoted out of Psal. 2.7. Thou God-Man, Thou thy self, Thou, and Thou alone (that this was spoken of Christ truly, and of David only as a Type of him, the Spirit asserts, Acts 13.34.) art my own Son, my Ever-being Son, my Son by Nature, Rom. 8.32. Singularity sets out his Eminency above all, and his Propriety by Nature in him.

At the day of his Incarnation, Isa. 9.6. Luke 1.31, 32, 35. but eminently at the day of his Resurrection was he declared and published to be his only begotten Son with Power, Rom. 1.4. and at his Ascension inaugurated the Supream, Universal King and Priest in Heaven and Earth; chap. 5.5. possest of a better Name, Place and Power than Angels, Ephes. 1.20, 21. What Men enjoy in this kind attributed to them, is with a vast disproportion to this; Born or Begotten they are said to be in respect of God's operation on them, infusing Divine qualities into their Souls, but this Son by a generation proper to a substantial Person.

In another Scripture, as 2 Sam. 7.14. 1 Chron. 17.13. and 22.10. It is declared, I his natural, and he my natural Son, so as they are not related to any other, as they are to each other. This in the Type was spoken of Solomon, but fulfilled in Christ, who was Universal King and Priest over his Church for ever; so David understood it, Psal. 110.1. compare 89.19, 26, to 30. He was the First-born Son, born a King; the Son of the Universal and Supream King, the Heir and Lord of all.

Marginal references: psal. 2.7.